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puny us on our reconnoitring-journey into the interior. In a variety 
of ways, his presence afforded us assistance, comfort, and dehght, 
and I pray, that he may be rewarded with a full enjoyment of every 
temporal and spiritual blessing. 
8th. In the morning at two o'clock, Brother Schmitt returned 
from the Cape, and informed me, that the Zebra was to sail on 
Sunday next. This made me resolve to go to-morrow to Capetown, 
to be in readiness. In the forenoon, Mr. Slabbert, in his travelling- 
waggon and ten horses, passing through Groenekloof to the Cape, 
offered to take me with him, but the missionaries prevailed upon me 
to decline it, and to follow in the morning on horseback; nor was 
my impatience to proceed homeward powerful enough, to repress 
the rising regret I felt at parting a second time from friends, en- 
deared to me by so many considerations. 
I spent the greater part of the day in once more walking through 
the settlement, and visiting its inhabitants. I was accompanied 
by one or other of the missionaries in my different walks. The 
Hottentots, at work at the brick-kiln, gave me a last proof of their 
attachment to old habits. While I was watching their setting it 
up, a boor, who is much engaged in the same work, came riding 
towards us, and began to take them to task : " You must do so and 
so," said he; "you know nothing about setting up a kiln, your 
bricks will never get burnt, &c.'^ To every sentence, their answer 
was, " Ya, Mynheer! Ya, Mynheer!" Having finished his lecture, 
the boor rode off in a gallop, but was no sooner out of hearing, 
than they began to make their remarks: " That man,'' said they, 
" thinks himself very wise, because he is a rich boor; but we must 
" do our own way, or the bricks will never be burnt. His bricks 
" are accustomed to his way, but our bricks can only be burnt in 
" our way/' They seem to have been in the right, for I have since 
heard, that their kiln answered perfectly well, and their bricks were 
remarkably good. 
In the evening-raeeting at the chapel. Brother Schmitt once 
more commended me to the blessing and protection of God, in fer- 
