1831.] 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPIU 
85 
" The progress made by many of the children at Sunday schools 
is generally encouraging, and in some instances extraordinary. 
At the late annual public examination of the scholars, such mani- 
fest indications of improvement are often exhibited, and such in- 
tellectual acuteness displayed, as afford the greatest encourage- 
ment to the patrons of the several institutions ; and it is almost 
impossible to form too high an estimate of the vast benefit which 
must be derived by- the next generation from the diffusion, through 
so many different channels, of religious and other knowledge 
among the youth of this district. Several of the Sunday schools 
have juvenile libraries, from which the more advanced scholars 
obtain the loan of various publications, not only of a moral and 
religious tendency, but also on general subjects. The good effect 
of these institutions has been remarkable : many who were for- 
merly scholars, are noW' gratuitous teachers ; and numbers have 
become exemplary characters, merely in consequence of the in- 
struction they received, and the habits they imbibed, while at- 
tending these schools." 
An infant school was established at Graham's Town a few 
months only subsequent to the visit of the Potomac, the rapid 
progress of which we learn has been truly astonishing ; a tem- 
perance society, and also a savings' bank, are in ">the full tide of 
successful experiment." A press has likewise been established, 
from which is issued the journal above named. 
Immediately adjoining Albany, to the northwest, lies a tract of 
country which was, about four years before our frigate made her 
appearance at Cape Town, allotted to the scattered Hottentots 
within the colony. It is located near the confluence of the Man- 
hazana and Kat rivers, and is, in fact, an extensive valley or glen, 
surrounded on all sides by mountains, except where it opens to 
the colony on the south. The number of Hottentots who are 
here collected from different parts of the country, is about five 
thousand.. Very little encouragement w^as offered them, with the 
exception of the location itself. No actual assistance, indeed, was 
ever promised them, nor have they received any, with the single 
exception of fire-arms for self-defence ; no preparations were made 
for their reception, and neither rations, implements, nor money 
were provided for them. But they carried their greatest and only 
treasures with them, viz., industry, temperance, and perseverance ; 
