JOURNAL OF A 
CHAPTER XV. 
Departure from Kliphuhel. Instance of persecution. Brutality of a 
boor. Avantiir. Civility of Mr. Zondag and his family. Bush- 
cats. Night's lodging at Veldcornet Rendsberg's. Eseljagd's 
Revier. Hartebeest-house at David Fries farm. Runaway slave. 
Delay at Great Dorn Revier. Unsuccessful attempt in surgery. 
Saffrans Revier. Attaquas Kloof. Caverns. Saffranskraal. 
German fariner and his baboon, at Groote PaerdeJcraaL 
W E left Kliphiibel about nine o'clock, and found the cows to 
perform their duty with great alacrity. As we were passing 
slowly over a hill, we saw a woman making towards us, across the 
lieath. When she reached the waggons, she appeared almost con- 
vulsed with weeping, and we could scarcely pacify her, so as to 
make her speech intelligible. She said, that she was the most mi- 
serable of beings, a slave, and sold by the Veldcornet, whom we 
had just left, to a neighbouring boor, because she went to hear the 
w ord of God. The boor himself was a moderate man, but his wife 
a most inveterate enemy of the gospel, who beat her slaves and 
dependants, if they showed any disposition that way. That, how- 
ever, was not the worst, but her son and daughter-in-law, were like- 
wise slaves to the Veldcornet, and to be sold on account of their 
love of religion, especially as her son spoke to the other slaves. 
They were to be separated from each other, the husband being dis- 
posed of to one, and the wife to another farmer, living at a dis- 
tance from each other; that the thoughts of it made her distracted, 
and she spent her time running to and fro among the bushes, cry- 
ing to God for mercy, but that, if she, or any other slaves, were 
found kneeling behind a bush in prayer, they were sure to be un- 
mercifully treated. W e spoke to her in as consoling a manner as 
we could, encouraged her to persevere in crying to the Lord forde- 
