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thousand persons, was covered with long benches ; one-half of which 
was appropriated to the women, and the other half to the men. 
Around three of the sides, a narrow gallery has been constructed ; 
and, at one end of the building, a small portion is partitioned off, for 
a vestry. The pulpit was merely a desk on a platform raised a little 
above the floor. Two separate doors admitted the male and the 
female part of the congregation to their respective benches. No- 
thing is solicited from visitors ; but near the door is a box to receive 
pecuniary contributions, which, however, are perfectly voluntary. 
The upper part of this building was converted into a large loft, for 
containing various stores belonging to the society. All money 
received, whether from the sale of the articles they manufacture, 
or of the produce of their vineyard ; from visitors for their accom- 
modations ; from voluntary donations ; or from any other source, is 
deposited in a common purse, and applied in aid of the expenses of 
the establishment. 
On one side of the green, a shady grove of oaks, regularly 
planted, surrounded and half concealed the different dwellings of the 
missionaries, together with the knife-manufactory, the blacksmith's 
shop, the water-mill and wine-press, the tobacco-house and cellar, 
the poultry-house, the cow-house, and store-rooms. The whole of 
these buildings, the work of the missionaries and their Hottentots, is 
substantially and neatly built in the Dutch style, and covered with 
thatch. Contiguous to the church and dwelling-houses, was an 
excellent garden, stocked with a variety of fruits and vegetables ; 
and beyond this a vineyard. In the garden, a large pear-tree, 
planted by the founder of the establishment, Schmidt, was pointed 
out to me with all that pleasure and satisfaction, which the respect 
they bore towards his memory so naturally awakened. Beyond 
the vineyard, there was a large burying-ground, regularly divided 
into compartments, in which the graves were dug in a regular 
and successive order ; each being numbered, to correspond with 
a register of the burials. Two or three graves of the missionaries 
and their wives were distinguished by broad flat tomb-stones, bear- 
ing a plain inscription. 
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