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by a numerous company. Brother Sclimitt addressed himself 
particularly to the young people, whom he exhorted to follow 
the example of their deceased friend, to forsake the world with 
its vanities and pollutions, and to press forward to the attaiu- 
nient of that same faith and hope of eternal life, which had sup- 
ported her during a lingering illness, and in the awful moment of 
death, and enabled her to leave the world, rejoicing in her God 
and Redeemer. His serious and affectionate discourse seemed to 
make a deep impression on the audience. The funeral was con- 
ducted with the greatest order and devotion, as described in my 
account of Gnadenthal, (p. 92). 
23d. Having written a letter to the congregation at Gnaden- 
thal, as requested above, Brother A^tein set out this morning, as 
our envoy, to convey our wishes to our Brethren, and to the 
Hottentots, in that settlement. Immanuel went with him, as 
groom. The weather turning out fine, the Brethren Schmitt and 
Fritsch accompanied me to Gaensekraal, near the sea coast, on 
a visit to Mr. Dashwood. The road is uninteresting, leading 
through a barren, sandy wilderness, with not a cultivated spot on 
either side. But the bountiful Creator has likewise here clothed 
the waste with an incomparable profusion of flowers, which, in some 
places, cover the sand between the bushes, as with a rich carpet. 
We discovered several tortoises waddling along, and took up five, 
being varieties of the same species, but of different shades of co- 
louring. One was new to us, having protuberances on the seams 
enclosing each compartment of the shell. 
To our great disappointment, we found an empty house at 
Gaensekraal. We therefore left our prey and our great coats with 
a dragoon, and proceeded through a level country, overgrown 
with large bushes, to the sea-coast. The mole-holes not a little 
annoyed us and our horses. Several antelopes started up close 
to us, and the nearer we approached the coast, the more dense 
was the thicket, so as to render it difficult to penetrate to the 
water's edge, which, where nearest, may be about two miles from 
