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15th. and 16th. Mr. Melville had kindly undertaken to make a 
correct plan of the whole settlement of Gnadenthal, which he exe- 
cuted in the most finished manner, with uncommon accuracy and 
neatness. 
17th. A boor, whose house is not far off, and a sink of every 
abomination, came to Gnadenthal on business. Father Marsveld 
addressed him on the diabolical deligjht he finds, in seducing our 
unsteady young people to drunkenness, and the commission of 
all manner of lewdness, when at work at his farm. lie is said to 
live in his cellar, to be near to his idol, the brandy-cask, and 
seldom sober. He had not a word to say in his own defence, but 
immediately quitted the place. 
This morning we desired the five Hottentots, who had accom- 
panied us into the interior, to inform us, what reward they ex- 
pected for their trouble. Their remarks would have done credit 
to the most disinterested and generous-hearted Europeans. As 
it was but just, that they should reap the benefit of their labours, 
and be recompensed for their uniform good behaviour, by which 
they did honour to their Christian profession, we gave them about 
as much again as the sum, with which they had declared them- 
selves satisfied, not wishing to take advantage of their willingness 
to serve a good cause, exerted at the expense of the duties they 
owed to their families. 
In the evening, we met, to confer about a proposal, made by the 
Hottentots themselves, in consequence of the disorders before al- 
luded to, which in so large a settlement cannot be prevented, with- 
out strict attention and watchfulness. It may be supposed, where 
there are many young people, that not all of them are willing 
to tread in the steps of their Christian parents, but rather dispo.'l^d 
to follow the ways of the world, and to give free vent to their 
unruly passions. To keep them in order had sometimes proved 
a very difficult task to the parents, who were unable to defeat the 
attempts, continually made by unprincipled white people, and 
others, to entrap the unwary. 
