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^ 28tli. In the afternoon Sister Schwinn proposied sbowiiio; us a 
curious water-fall in the western division of Bavians-Kloof, and we 
made a party to follow her. We scrambled up a very steep and 
rough road, to gain the object of our search, fighting our way through 
bashes and bogs, till one after the other gave it up; and when our 
leader arrived at the spot, she had only one man and one woman of 
the party, to witness her disappointment, in hardly finding a few 
drops trickling down the rock. However, the scramble afforded 
much amusement, and we found some refreshment provided among 
the bushes on the- bank of the Bavians-Revier, where it passes 
under the hanging rock. I made two sketches of the singular rocks, 
in both divisions of the glen. 
29th. Mr. Bartlett, a missionary from the Missionary Society in 
London, arrived here, wishing to engage Hottentot drivers and 
leaders to accompany him into the Namaqua country; but though 
encouraged by us, and even by an address of Father Marsveld to 
our people, in which he represented, that in assisting this missionary 
to proceed to his station among their countrymen, in the north-west 
part of the colony, they would be serving the cause of God, they 
very civilly declined it, on account of their engagements with the 
farmers, and the very long absence from their families, which the 
journey would require. We therefore recommended to Mr. Bartlett, 
to endeavour to procure assistance from Groenekloof, in which he 
succeeded. 
March 1st. Brother Schmitt and his wife, and Brother Stein, ar- 
rived here from Groenekloof I walked with Mr. Bartlett through 
the settlement, and visited some of the gardens. He was much 
pleased with that of Benjamin Okkers. We found the Caffre, Wil- 
helmina, sitting in her hut, reading a Dutch translation of the expo- 
sition of Christian doctrine. After breakfast, I was called out, to 
see a baboon on the hill to the right of the kloof. This was the first 
of these creatures I had seen here in a wild state, and a very large 
animal. He had approached near the gardens, with a vicAV to steal 
peaches ; but perceiving so many people standing to observe him, 
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