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Several Hottentots then spoke in explanation, but Father Mars- 
veld proved to them, that the Koopman family were duly entitled 
to the captaincy of this place, and not the Hesqua. They seemed 
to receive the exhortations and even severe reproofs, given by 
Brother Bonatz, with patience and kindness, and several thanked 
us afterwards for the pains we had taken to make the matter clear 
to them, promising to desist from their silly projects, to which they 
had been urged by a designing and crafty Hottentot in the village. 
.26th. Brother Bonatz proposed to show me the western boun- 
dary of the land belonging to the settlement. We set out in a bul- 
lock waggon, passed through llobyntjes Kraal, and saw a piece of 
land, lately exchanged and given to us by Government ; after which, 
mounting a poney, I rode with Brother Leitner up the hill towards 
the Jagersbosch,to see the boundary-stones, or baakens. One of them 
stands in a romantic little glen, in which, as well as in a gulley on 
the opposite mountain, there were some beautiful water-falls. From 
hence the boundary-line passes across the vale of the Sonderend, to 
the heathy and rocky hills towards the south, then takes an eastern 
direction along their summits, for about two English miles. The 
Hottentot captain Koopman and his corporal were Avith us in order 
to become acquainted with the boundary. After the evening-service 
in the church, I generally spent an hour with one or other of the mis- 
sionaries in their own rooms, in pleasant and useful conversation. 
On these occasions. Father Marsveld always gave some interest- 
ing accounts of the origin of this settlement, when he and his two 
fellow-labourers, Schwinn and Kuehnel, suffered many privations, 
and likewise much persecution, but most cheerfully and harmo- 
niously went to work from day to day, each taking some particular 
pan of the labour, as settled among themselves in friendly conversa- 
tion, by which, in aehort time, their cottage got built and furnished, 
their garden dug and planted, fences and ditches made, and that 
with very little assistance from the Hottentots. But the " joy of the 
Lord was their strength,'' and they " served Him with gladness/' 
27th. I spent very busily at my desk. 
