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v/ay, we visited a plnntation on the waste, begun some time ago by 
Brother BonatZj which the heat and dryness of the sand will not 
permit to thrive. Cruywagens Kraal is an old Hottentot station, 
in a pleasant, fruitful valley, with a supply of water from a foun- 
tain, but now only used for pasture. A considerable number of 
oxen were feeding upon it. As we ascended the hill, an extensive 
view of the Zwartland presented itself, appearing like a heathy 
and desolate plain, with a few scattered farms. The mountains 
of Tulbach and Rodesand, lay in the back ground, the highest of 
which was covered with snow. After crossing the head of the val- 
ley, we turned towards that part of the Lauweskloof hill, where 
Brother Schmitt, in the year 1811, had an encounter with a tyger, 
I had been very desirous to visit that spot in his company, where 
he might describe to me all the particulars of that terrible conflict. 
Though a pretty full account of it is inserted in the Periodical Ac- 
counts of the Missions of the Brethren, vol. v. p. 118, in an extract 
of a letter from his wife to me, yet I believe I shall not be thought to 
trespass on the patience of my readers, if I repeat it here, as related 
to me by himself, standing on the scene of action. 
Wolves having done much mischief at Groenekloof, where they 
even entered the yard and took away a sheep, and in the fields 
worried several beasts belonging to the Hottentots, an attempt was 
made, on the 6th of August, to find out their haunts, and, if possi- 
ble, to destroy them. For that purpose, tlie missionaries Bonatz 
and Schmitt, with about thirty Hottentots, set out early in the 
morning, towards the Lauweskloof hill, where they are mostly met 
with. One of these animals was seen and lamed by a shot, but es- 
caped and entered the bushes. The Hottentots followed, but the 
missionaries, not expecting to succeed, were returning, when the 
party called to them, that the wounded wolf was in the thicket. 
Brother Schmitt rode back, and alighting, entered with a Hotten- 
tot of the name of Philip Moses. The dog started some animal, 
which those within the bushes could not see; but the Hottentots 
remaining on the outside, perceiving it to be a tyger, called aloud 
