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tain's staff for bis tribe. We told him, that, had he obtained it, he 
should immediately have quitted the settlement, and might have 
exercised his aothority among the wolves and jackals, the only in- 
habitants at present in the liesqua Kloof, where formerly that 
tribe had its residence. That, also, the first disturbance he should 
occasion, would be punished with expulsion. x\fter much preva- 
ricaticii, he was brought to confession, and promises of his future 
peaceable demeanor. 
7th. I visited the girK' school, and heard some of them read very 
well. Dr. Bell's plan is followed as much as possible, but not in 
all its parts. Some have made tolerable progress in writing. 
In the afternoon, I rode with Brother Lemmerz, across the 
Sonderend, to a hill beyond Badenhorst's farm; where I made a 
drawing of the approach to the Gnadenthal valley. The river 
was so much swollen, that it was impossible to ford it, without 
being w^et. 
As the time of my departure drew near, the farewell-visits of the 
Hottentots became more frequent, and many parties of men, w omen, 
and children, followed each other during the day. 
In the evening, captain Koopman and two other Hottentots 
paid me a formal visit. They began the conversation, by express- 
ing the regard and affection they felt for me, and their sorrow for 
my depai ture. Having made portraits of the two veneiable Fa- 
thers, Marsveld and Schwinn, w hich lay on my table, they immedi- 
ately knew them, and seemed delighted to see them " written down 
on paper." Captain Koopman then said, that he had still some- 
thing to observe about the land belonging to the Hottentots, in 
consequence of my having lately asserted, " that the land was given 
by Government to the Brethren, for the Hottentots, and that, if it 
had not been for the Mission, the Hottentots Avould have lost it all." 
He entered into a long demonstration to prove, that not only this 
land, but two neighbouring farms, which he named, had, in old 
times, been Hottentots' land, being secured to one of his ancestors, 
by some Dutch Governor, but to which ancestor, and by what 
