1 Oct. 1811. 
A WALK KOUND THE VILLAGE. 
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considered that this little community, and the spot on which I 
stood, were nearly eight hundred miles deep in the interior of 
Africa, I could not but look upon every object of their labors with 
double interest ; and received, at that moment, a pleasure, unalloyed 
by the knowledge of a single untoward circumstance. The Hot- 
tentots peeped out of their huts to have a look at me ; and I fancied 
they appeared glad at having one more white man amongst them. 
I paid a visit to my fellow-travellers, Mrs. Anderson and 
Mrs. Kramer, to whom I was under obligation for much friendly 
attention during our journey ; and found them in their cottages, 
busily employed in arranging and disposing of the stores they had 
brought from the Cape. They were assisted in their domestic work 
by Hottentot women, very cleanly dressed in clothes of European 
fashion and materials. 
We also visited Captain Dam, as he is called, the Hottentot 
chief of Klaarwater, who holds a sort of authority over one-half of 
this tribe (of Mixed Hottentots) ; while Captain Berends is, in like 
manner, the regulator and commander of the other half His name 
was Adam Kok : he appeared to be under the middle age, with a 
countenance indicative of a quiet disposition. My visit to him re- 
quired no explanations, as the missionaries had already made him ac- 
quainted with every thing respecting me. His hut, which was close 
behind the missionary's, was not better than those of other Hot- 
tentots ; but was made of mats, in the usual hemispherical form. * 
From the moment when 1 decided on making Klaarwater in my 
Beyond these is shown a part of the ridge, which is represented at the head of 
Chapter XX. These same buildings are seen in Plate 8 ; but are there viewed on the 
other side. 
* The vignette at the head of Chapter XX. is a representation of Captain Dam's hut, 
and of his "waggon, of which mention is made in the following chapter. Behind them 
are seen some of the trees of the missionary's garden, enclosed by a hedge of dry bushes. 
The trunk of a tree is fixed up near the hut, for the purpose of preparing (or, as they call 
it, breyen) leathern reims, and for hanging game and various other things upon. Such an 
apparatus is called by them, and by the colonists, who also make use of it, a Brey-paal. 
On the ridge in the distance may be seen, just above the Brey-paal, a part of the 
road leading to Ongeluk's Fontein; 
