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military, besides the Plottentot soldiers from Gnadenthal, were 
glad to attend our familj'-worship. 
8th. The rain continued with such violence all day, that we 
were obliged to postpone our departure. During the night, a 
dog entered the tent, and carried off a butter-pot, wrapt in a nap- 
kin, and a pair of springbock horns, given me by Colonel Cuyler. 
We gave them up for lost; but they were found in a ditch near 
the tent. He had devoured the butter, half of the napkin, and 
part of the skull belonging to the horns. This is the second time, 
that we have been thus robbed by these half-starved animals. 
Some Hottentots, Avho visited us in the tent, were desirous to 
know our opinion concerning the groaning practised by some of 
their countrymen, during divine service. We answered, that we be- 
lieved, that the work of God's Spirit was not to be sought for in 
noise and external marks, which might be affectation, but in a 
humbling sense of our sin and need, and in a broken heart and. 
contrite Spirit. The Lord was not in the wind, nor in the earth- 
quake, but in the small still voice. 
Mr. Von Buchenrode having invited our whole party to dinner, 
we again met Mr. Knobel, when, after a long dearth of music, I was 
extremely gratified to find in the latter an excellent performer on 
the piano-forte and flute. We spent two or three hours in playing 
Haydn's and Mozart's duettos, to the great gratification of our 
hearers. Little did I expect to have such a treat in this distant 
corner of the earth. 
Towards evening, the rain ceased, and we prepared to set out 
in the morning early, hoping that the rivers were yet passable. 
9th. Though the morning was again rainy, we determined to pro- 
ceed, and I went to take leave of the landdrost, and make some fioal 
arrangements. Nothing could exceed the kindness and good-will of 
Colonel Cuyler, who acted as if he were personally interested in the 
success of our expedition. He showed me the horses destined tor 
us, with his own travelling horse for myself. Once more 1 paid my 
