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while my friends rested. It was a providential circumstance, tliat 
I remained awake. The door was made of rushes, fastened to- 
gether with thongs, in a slender frame, and had no lock. The 
rushes did not reach to the top of the door-way» and I was twice 
disturbed by a cat, scrambling up from the outside, and jumping 
over into our dormitory. This, however, proved a slight dis- 
turbance. About midnight, the bull and other cattle broke out 
of the kraal, and the unruly beast came bellowing up to the 
door, which he began to push about with his horns. I was 
much alarmed, as very little force was required to throw it down, 
when we should have had a very troublesome guest in our quar- 
ters. Being afraid to face him in the dark, I made some noise 
within, when he took himself off, yet every now and then ap- 
proaching, in his perambulations. I therefore immediately fell to 
work, to make a fastening to the door, with a piece of iron, found 
in the forge, which I worked into the wall, and tied to the door 
with a strong thong. Yet, after all these precautions, I hardly ven- 
tured to lie down. Between four and five in the morning, two 
thunder storms, with heavy rain, passed successively over us, and 
we were thankful for the shelter we had found. They followed 
the course of the Chamtoos Revier from north to south. 
24th. The Klein Revier farm, mentioned above, as recom- 
mended to me both by the Colonial Secretary, and the land- 
drost of Uitenhagen, as a place suitable for a missionary esta- 
blishment, lies about two or three English miles from the 
Chamtoos Wagendrift, in the hills, higher up the river. Though 
•a farmer had applied for it, and it was therefore contrary to 
our views to take advantage of his not having obtained a grant, 
yet I felt it my duty to go and look at it, both that it might 
not appear, as if we were indifferent to the kindness, that had 
dictated the offer, and that I might obtain more information on 
the spot, respecting the intentions of the present claimant. After 
breakfast, therefore, I rode with Brother Schmitt and Marcus 
to the place, our host very civilly accompanying us. Brother 
