KTJBDMAN : ITS FOUNTAIN. 
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lafrier roqniro frequent repairs, nono of tho Bccbuanas have 
ever learned to raond thorn. Forges and tools havo boon 
at thoir sorvico, and toacbors willing to aid them, but, 
beyond putting together a camp-stool, no effort has over 
boon mado to acqniro a knowl*dgo of tho trades. Tboy 
obsorvo most carofully a missionary at work until tboy 
ondorstand wbothor a tiro is well wolded or not, and then 
pronounce upon its merits with great emphasis; but thore 
thoir ambition rests satisfied. It is tho same peculiarity 
among oursolvos which loads us in other matters, such as 
book-making, to attain tho excellence of fault-finding 
without the wit to indite a pago. It was in vain I tried 
to indoctrinate the Bechuanas with tho idea that criticism 
did not imply any superiority over tho workman, or even 
equality with him. 
CHAPTEK VI. 
DS. LIVINGSTONE VISITS HI8 FATHER-IN-LAW, MR. MOFFAT, 
AT KORUMAN. 
The permanence of tho station callod Kuruman depend* 
entirely on tho fine ever-flowing fountain of that namo 
It comes from beneath tho trap-rock, and, as it usually 
issues at a tomporaturo of 72° Fahr., it probably comes 
from tho old Silurian schists which formed tho bottom of 
tho groat primeval valley of tho continent. I could not 
detect any diminution in tho flow of this gushing fountain 
during my residence in tho country; but when Mr. Mofl'at 
first attempted a settlement boro, thirtv-fivo years ago, bo 
mado a darn six or seven miles below tho present one, and 
led out tho stream for irrigation, where not a drop of the 
fountain-water over now flows. Other parts, fourteen miles 
below the Kuruman gardens, are pointed out as having 
