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and Stein, not knowing that Sister Schmitt was an English wo- 
man, he betrayed his hatred against the nation: " The English," 
said he, " pretend to know, that this country lately belonged to 
" theCaffres, but I know better. Not a Caffre lived here, when 
" I first came into it, nor yet within a great many miles beyond 
" the Great Fish River, but the English think themselves tlic 
" wisest of men." 
This place is undoubtedly a most eligible situation for a mis- 
sionary settlement, possessing corn-land and pasturage, and well 
supplied with water. The valley is very extensive, and connected 
with others, enclosed by branches of the mountains. We looked 
at a wolf-house on a heathy eminence behind the garden. It is 
a walled trap, resembling a mouse-trap, with a falling door, awk- 
wardly constructed. In this trap, five wolves have been caught 
within the last three months. The Brethren Schmitt and Stein 
continued their walk towards the hills, and down the valley, while 
Mr. Austin returned with me to the house. The buildings form 
a very unsightly groupe of hovels, bondhoeks, and ruinous walls. 
Dung, rags, remnants of half-devoured carcases, and other filth, 
surround the dwelling on all sides. 
Beyond this place we did not extend our reconnoitring journey. 
The landdrost had indeed most kindly expressed a wish, that we 
would go yet farther, and examine situations on Bavians Revier, 
in Graaf Reynet, a river flowing into the Great Fish River; but 
as he could not point out any particular place, yet unoccupied, 
and I had heard, that the only land worth possessing, on that riv- 
er, was on the Caffre side, where no Hottentot settlement could 
be formed with safety, and having likewise far exceeded the time 
appropriated for this expedition, we resolved to return from hence 
to Gnadenthal. 
