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brought two wretched lean skeletons, half eaten, 
being all that the wolves and wild dogs had left out 
of the flock. They were out only one night. 
My Kaffir, Matakit, upset the kettle of boiling 
water over his bare foot the other day, and took 
about as much notice of it as I should have done 
with a strong shooting-boot on. They have regular 
hides, not skin at all. 
I was amused at seeing four Dutch women — two 
old and two young — sharpening their knives on the 
door-step, preparatory to cutting the throat of a huge 
goat, which they did, and then skinned and cut him 
up in a masterly style, without showing the slightest 
feeling whatever, though they had a good fight ere 
they could throw him: altogether, too manly an ex¬ 
hibition to heighten my opinion of them. A German 
missionary has outspanned here on his way to Natal, 
just giving me time to write a line home. 
15 tli .—-At last, made a start with three wagons, 
nine horses, and forty-two oxen. Lots of salutes 
firing on both sides. Got only to Moiloi’s, and laid 
in a store of Kaffir corn. 
1 6 th. — Passed through a beautiful country, along 
a well-wooded valley. Came to Mr. Edwards’s old 
station, which is well situated, and has a fine garden, 
but the buildings, which are very large and substan¬ 
tial, are all going to ruins. A great deal of pains have 
been taken here ; the chapel is now converted into 
a dwelling-house for Kaffirs, curs, &c. I saw half- 
a-dozen of the latter stretched before the remains of 
