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skilled in any art, the services of Hottentots are more wanted in 
the cultivation of the land. Thus they have been taught, bettey 
to know their own value, and will no longer submit to the treat- 
ment they formerly received. Being both by Dutch and English 
laws a free nation, they cannot be compelled to serve an unjust 
or tyrannical master, and it is solely owing to their natural 
indolence, that many of them remain in poverty and misery. 
The effect of Christian instruction contributes most towards rais- 
ing them from the abject and wretched state, into which they had 
been plunged, by gradually changing their dispositions, and 
making them obedient, not only to the precepts of the Gospel, 
but to all those moral and civil obligations which it inculcates, 
as they are successively explained to them by their teachers. 
About an English mile above a pleasant farm, called Rotter- 
dam, we arrived at the Bueffeljagd's Revier. The bushes cover- 
ing both banks near the ford consist chiefly of the mimosa. 
Having crossed the river, we turned to the left, out of the 
main road, under a hill, the ascent of which Avas covered with a 
profusion of large aloes. This was the first time we had seen 
this singular plant growing in such abundance. 
Tlie vale of the Zuurbrack is, at its entrance from the west, nar- 
row and full of wood. The Bueffeljagd's Revier winds from side 
to side between steep banks, and must be forded twice, before the 
missionary Institution can be approached. A few ilottentot wo- 
men, imitating the custom at Gnadenthal, came out to meet us, 
and walking alongside of the waggons, bid us welcome with a Jiymn. 
The valley widens near the settlement, and appears to be a spot 
well chosen for the purposes of such an institution. We were re- 
ceived by Mr. ai d Mi!:, beiaenfaaen, her mother, and brother, and 
his assistant, Mr. Wimmer, with great kindness. After some con- 
versation and refreshment, we proceeded to see Mr. Seideniadeii'& 
gardens, which are well laid out. After dinner, we walked 
with him through the Hottentot village, which at present v^ni- 
sists of one row of huts on ihc north side of tlie valley. Some of 
