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CHAPTER XVIII. 
Departure from Gnadenthal. Accompanied hy Hottentots and Mis' 
sionnries. Warmhaths. Dr, Hassner loses his best slave, Caledon. 
Bontjeskraal. Night's lodging at Servas de Kok'sfarm. Ford of 
the Botte Revier. Mr. Uries farm and inn. Battle o f baboons. 
Bridge over the Palmite Kevier. Hottentot-Hollands- Kloof 
Brenk's Inn. Night spent at Mr. Delport's farm. Remarkable 
mountains. Farms of Mr. Dirk Cloete, Mr. Neukirch, and 
Mr. Bruckman, A Boors opinion of the Caffres and Hottentots. 
Arrival at Groenekloof Mr. Slabbert. Consultation about the 
new Church. Mr. Kotzee. Remarks on intruders. Arrival at 
Capetown. Mr. Hoetz's villa. Returnof mij travelling companions 
to Gnadenthal. Visit at Newlands. Mr. Sebastian van Rhetien. 
Observations on Church-music. Return to Groenekloof. 
June 11th. I did not feel qaite well, and had ahnost given up 
the hopes of being able to set out this morning, on account of the 
reported fullness of the Sonderend, when Solomon Pfeiffer, who 
had been sent to examine the state of that rivei-, returned with the 
news, that it might be forded with great ease. We therefore pre- 
pared for the journey. 
After I had paid an early visit to the two venerable Fathers, 
Marsveld and Schwinn, in their rooms, the family breakfasted to- 
gether in the dming-hall, and once more commended me and my 
fel low travellers to the grace and protection of God, in a short prayer 
by Father Mars veld. 
Meanwhile, about two hundred Hottentots had assembled in the 
grove. All would press forward, and their eagerness once more 
to shake hands and bid me farewell, was so great, that a general 
scramble was avoided only by my cal/i ng to them, that I would not 
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