CHAP. IX. 
ALOES AND ZAMIA. 
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were obliged, at great inconvenience and loss, to seek another 
position. They had purchased land at some distance, and 
the missionary was preparing to accompany them to their 
future home. 
Leaving Avontuur and descending the Montague pass, we 
revisited Pecaltsdorp, and held a more satisfactory meeting 
with the people. We also visited Zuurbraak, where the 
people prepared a public breakfast, which was followed by an 
encouraging public meeting. I had sketched a number of 
natural objects during the journey, and on our way to this 
station I added a drawing of a beautiful Aloe ferox in flower. 
I had previously sketched the Aloe vulgaris , which abounds 
near Bethelsdorp. The gum of this plant, the medicinal aloe 
