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was full of the usual complaints against the measures of Govern- 
ment, and seemed a woman of spirit. 
After breakfast, we held a council, in which it was determined, 
that Mr. Melville, Stein, and myself, should proceed in the travel- 
ling-waggon with Mr. Van Roy's spann, to a farm, called Klaare- 
fonteyn, and there hire oxen to fetch the baggage-waggon and the 
rest of our party from hence, and both proceed towards Uitenhagen 
with relays, ordered, as before, by the landdrost's letter of com- 
mand; for we gave up all expectation of seeing the spann, sent, by 
mista-ke, to the Chamtoos Revier. 
Meanwhile, Brother Stein had visited the Hottentots and slaves 
belonging to Mr. Van Roy's farm, in their bondhoeks, or huts, and had 
much useful conversation with them. They had heard, that we were 
in search of a place to build a settlement, and the Hottentots de- 
clared, that they would all come and live in it, that they might hear 
the word of God; and, had they known last night, that we were 
teachers from Gnadenthal, they would have come to our camp, 
and begged to be instructed. They had obtained some informa- 
tion of the aim of our journey from Leonhard Paerl, who, as our pre- 
cursor, officiously announced our errand. He had sat up Avith them 
the whole of the night preceding our arrival, describing Gnaden- 
thal, its regulations, its schools, the instructions given to the Hotten- 
tots in the Christian religion, the cultivation of the grounds and 
gardens, &c. interspersing his account with observations on the ne- 
cessity of conversion, the happiness enjoyed by those, who believed 
in Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and their hopes of eternal life, af- 
ter the death of the body. 
This simple narrative had so much engaged the attention of 
these poor people, that they expressed the greatest eagerness soon 
to have the same benefit bestowed upon them, in this country. 
Though old Leonhard's officiousness, in thus informing the farmers 
and others, what we were in search of, in some instances, raised 
needless uneasiness in prejudiced minds, yet we forgave it, in con- 
sideration of his frequently adding observations, which may have 
