CHAPTER XV. 
RESIDENCE AND TRANSACTIONS AT KLAARWATER ; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF 
THE SETTLEMENT AND ITS INHABITANTS. 
October 1st. This mornins;* as soon as I had risen, I received a 
visit from Mr. Jansz, the missionary, who had been residing at 
Klaarwater, and had conducted the spiritual affairs of that station, 
during the long absence of his two brethren. He was a native 
of Holland, and had been several years in Africa, in the service of 
the Dissenting Missionary Society of London. The evident cordi- 
ality with which he gave me a welcome to the settlement, and the 
unreserved friendliness of his manners towards those around him, 
were, I considered, indications of a genuine goodness of heart, which 
is certainly one of the most valuable qualifications of him whose ob- 
ject is to gain the esteem and good-will of savages. 
I accompanied the three missionaries round the village, to take 
a cursory view of the different parts of it ; the huts of the Hotten- 
tots ; their own dwellings ; the house for religious meetings and 
school instruction * ; their storehouse, and their garden. When I 
* The above engraving is a view of the Church. The furthest building is the 
dwelling-house of one of the missionaries ; and the intermediate hut is a storehouse. 
