1811. ITS INHABITANTS, AND THEIR ORIGIN. ^Ql 
or four at Leeuwenkuil, a place between the mountains, and about a 
mile and a half distant. Within fifty miles, in various directions, are 
nearly a dozen other out-posts; but they are not always inhabited : of 
these, the largest is the Kloof. 
The aggregate number of inhabitants at Klaarwater and the out- 
stations, amounted in the year 1809, as I was informed, to seven 
hundred and eighty-four souls ; and it was supposed that at this 
time it had not decreased : for, although some had left them and 
returned into the Cape colony, others had been added from that quar- 
ter in an equal proportion. The Koras and Bushmen living within 
the Klaarwater district, cannot be considered as belonging to the 
establishment, since they show no desire to receive the least instruc- 
tion from the missionaries, nor do they attend their meetings, but 
continue to remove from place to place, a wild independent people. 
The tribe of Hottentots now at Klaarwater, had its origin from 
the two families of the Mixed Race, of the name of Kok and Berends, 
who, about forty years ago, preferring their freedom on the banks of 
the Great River to a residence within the Cape colony, where they 
had acquired a few sheep in the service of the farmers, emigrated 
thither from the Kamiesberg with all their cattle and friends. These 
were, from time to time, joined by others of the same race, who 
found their life under the boors not so agreeable as they wished. 
Thus, their increasing numbers rendered them an object worth the 
attention of the missionaries ; whose station amongst the Bushmen 
at Zak River, happened to break up about the year 1800. These Hot- 
tentots appearing to offer an easier and more promising soil for their 
labors, the missionaries attached themselves to them, and followed 
them in all their wanderings along the river, till they were at last 
persuaded to remain stationary at Aakaap, and finally atKlaarwater ; 
which, at the time they took possession of it, was a Bushman kraal. 
The existence of this little community of Hottentots, was well 
known to the colonists under the name of the Bastaards, because 
the whole of them were at that time, all of the Mixed Race. * 
See the note at page 154. 
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