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DESCRIPTION OF GENADENDAL. 
12 April, 
The principal dwelling-house, where the brethren meet at every 
meal, and at private prayer, had formerly been their church, until 
the congregation becoming too numerous, they were obliged to 
build a larger. Every missionary, according to the custom of their 
society, professes some useful art or trade. One of the above- 
named, who from their age had now become the fathers of this 
family, was the constructor of an excellent water-mill, at which, 
besides the use made of it by the whole settlement, some money is 
earned towards its expenses, by grinding corn for the neighbouring 
boors. The second was a carpenter, waggon-maker, &c. ; and the 
third, a smith, who had established a very respectable manufactory 
for cutlery ; the Genadendal knives fetching a higher price among 
the boors, than those of the same kind imported from Europe. 
Those Hottentots who are willing to be instructed, are taken as 
apprentices in the different trades. 
A constant stream of water is supplied by a small rivulet, called 
Baviaan's river, issuing from the mountains of the Kloof, and which, 
after meandering through the whole length of the valley, joins 
the river Zondereinde. This valley is divided into a great number 
of small gardens, portioned out among those Hottentot families 
who are disposed to submit to all the regulations of the settle- 
ment, and take up their abode under its protection. By the rules, 
of the institution, these' "gardens and advantages become forfeited 
as soon as they cease to conduct themselves with industry and 
morality. This simple and just law, is one of the secrets by which 
the Moravians here have been enabled to maintain that good order 
and decorum which are among the best practical results of mis- 
sionary labors. Interspersed between the gardens, but without 
much regularity, are the huts of the Hottentots ; and besides these, 
a fewmore are scattered about in the adjoining valleys. 
The population of Genadendal, or, more correctly speaking, 
the number of Hottentots registered as belonging to this institution, 
amounts, according to the information I received, to about fourteen 
hundred souls ; but the number of actual inhabitants at any one 
