A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa ... Illustrated by two maps, sixteen etchings and twenty-eight wood-cuts

Chapter I

"Voyage to the Mauritius. — Accommodation. — Reef. — Heavy Seas. — Rodrigue. — Seamen. — Mauritius. — Pilot. — Port Louis. — Population. — Hotel. — Slavery. — Colonial Secretary. — Citadel. — Plaines Wilhems. — Trees.— Roads. — Rocks. — Worship. — Grande Riviere. — Maroons. — Governor. — Christian Visits. — Signal Mountain. — Tamarind Tree. — Plants. — State of Religion. — Animals. — Shrubs. — Sabbath, &c. — Pamplemousses. — .Paul and Virginia. — Sugar Plantations. — Country. — Mapou. — School. — Congregation 1

Chapter II

Prisons in Port Louis. — Runaway. — Smuggling. — Indian Labourers. — Effects of Emancipation. — Military Hospital. — Embarkation. — Disappointment. — Rain. — Aqueduct. — Plants. — Madagascar. — Destroying by Measure. — Yamseys. — Pitton. — Slavery. — Poudred'Or. — Botanic Garden. — Spice-trees. — Heathenism. — Interior. — Mahebourg Plaine Magnon. — Effects of Slavery. — Trees, "Wasps, &c. — Jelly-fish. — Forests. — Animals. — Salutations. — Indian Labourers. — Manioc. — Return to Port Louis. — Visits to Mapou and Grande Baie. — Useful Plants. — Islands. — Coral Reef. — Octopodia. — Shells. — Fruits. — Free Creoles 19

Chapter III

Grand Riviere. — Custard Apple. — Banana. — Mangoes. — Bread Fruit. — Dangerous Situation. — "Washing. — Slave Apprentices. — Crinum augustum. — Intemperance among Soldiers. — Beasts of Burden. — Price of Meat. — Visit to Mahebourg. — Prison. — ReUgious Awakenings. — Return to Port Louis. — Schools. — The Pouce Mountain. — Forests. — Plants. — Snails. — Sabbath. — Civil Hospital. — Mauritius Missionary Society. — Corals. — Works of Creation. — Temperature. — Preaching of Women. — Rivea tiliæfolia. — Esculent Plants. — Snuff Eating. — Head-Dresses. — Ironmongery. — Population. — Temperance. — State of the Colony. — Schools. — Coral Reef. — Negress shot at. — State of Religion. — Departure 41

Chapter IV

Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.— Bourbon. — Volcano. — Tropical Rain. — Vessel and Crew. — Madagascar. — Portuguese-men-of-war. — Gales. — Coast of Africa. — Birds. — Anticipations. — Table Bay. — T. L. Hodgson. — Cape Town. — Letters. — Reflections. — J. Williams. — Dr. Philip. — Scenery. — Winter. — Military Defence. — Temperance. — Worship. — Schools. — Cold. — Dates. — Flowers. — Religious Meetings. — Visit to Simon's Town. — The Camden. — Government School. — Waterfall. — Meetings. — State of Religion.— Return to Cape Town. —Divine Teaching.— India Invalids.— R. Haddy.— Constantia.— Leopards.— CONTENTS. Vineyards.— Plants.— Wynberg.— Reformed Dutch Church.— Settlement of Coloured People. — Newlands.— Oak Woods.— Silver-trees.— Porcupines. - Intemperance °"

Chapter V

Cape Town.— Meetings. — Travellers. — Wagon. — Duivelsberg. — Plants. — Disturbers of Meetings. — Tract on Salvation. — Burial Grounds. — Animals. — Christian Instruction Society. — Mahomedans. — Magisterial interference to prevent disorder. — Oxen. —Observatory. — Dishonour of Parents. — Cold. " Komfoor. "—Spring. — American Missionary.— Servants. — Table Mountain. — Leave to visit Prisons. — Wesleyan School.— Missionary Labours. — Gospel Messengers.— Decease of M. B. — Snow. — Books.— Commencement of a long Journey. — Wagon. — Equipage. — Cape Flats. — Heaths. — Fox. — Fountains. — Somerset in Hottentots Holland.— Sir Lowrys Pass.— Erica Massonia.— Dutch Tract 79

Chapter VI

Houw.— Convicts.— Caffer Finch.— Caledon.— Meeting.— Lunar Rainbow.— Rietbok.— Leper Institution. — Hot Baths.— Tree Snake.—" Naacht Maal." — Prejudices. — Genadendal. — Missionaries. — Oaks. — Hottentots. — Hout Kloof. — Elim.— Geraniums. — Ostrich. — Pied Antelope. — Effect of Strong-drink.— Greenhouse Shrubs. — Water Uyentjes. — Sabbath in the Wilderness.— Studying Dutch. — Hyenas.— Dr. Philip.— Sheep and Goats.— Palmite. — Straying of Cattle. — RiemsandTrek-touw. — Breede Rivier. — Willow.— Crossing the River. — Missionary's Wife. — Zwellendam. — Oefcning-huis. — Schools. — Library. — Civilized Mantatee. — Piety. — Prison. — Stocks 92

Chapter VII

Zuurbraak. — Missionaries' wives. — Village. — Population. — Injustice. — War.— State ofthe People. — Awakening. — Manufacture of Mats. — Grootvaders Bosch. — Jonkers Fontein. — Journey to Zoar. — Pelargonium tricolor. — Little Karroo. — Field Cornet. — Doornboom Acacia. — Periodical Rivers. — Plants. — Rodeberg Hoek Fontein. — Zoar. — Treatment of Hottentots. — Meeting at Jonkers Fontein. — Coloured People. — Riversdale. — Preaching to Hottentots. — Meeting. — Country. — Aloes. — Gauritz River. — Dr. Philip. — Mossel Bai. — Insects 106

Chapter VIII

Wagon upset. — Pacaltsdorp. — George. — Oppression. — Preaching of a Hottentot woman. — Converted Slave. — Proposed Vagrant Law. — Infant Schools. — Hottentots. — Field Cornet. — Kynsna.— Forests. — Plants. — Animals. — Fishery. — Melville. — Unsteady Seamen.— Plettenberg Bay. — Cape Mole. — African Elephant. — Bush-buck. — Canteens. — Extorted Confession. — Timber Cutters. — Schools. — Instruction of Children in a variety of Languages. — Dysalsdorp. — Copperas Springs. — Mission Stations. — Slave-apprentices. — Hottentots previous to 1828. — Religious Labours. — Doom Boom. — Fire-fly. — Cradocks Kloof. — Lange Kloof. — Farms. — Remarkable Meteor. — Rudeness. — Avontuur. — Fingoes.— Bustard. —Friendly Hottentots 126

Chapter IX

Krom Rivier. — Clarkson. — Plants.— Demand for Books. — Insects. — Honey Vale. CONTENTS. V — Hankey.— Day of Emancipation.— Thanksgiving.— Women bitten by Serpents. — Settlement. — Tenure. — Poverty. —Industry. — Temperance Tea-meeting. — Signing the Pledge. — Steadfastness. — Early practice of Temperance. — Hottentot Children and Drunken Englishman. — Brutal conduct toward an Emancipated Slave. — Servants. — Departure. — Leopards. — Bavian-tow. — Chandalier Euphorbia. — Baboons. — Fruit. — Ornaments. — Van Staadens Rivier 142

Chapter X

Cattle and Bones. — Bethelsdorp. — Missionary Communities. — Schools. — Gospel Light. — Horse Sickness. — Port Elizabeth. — Aloes. — Salt. — Plants. — Temperance. — Prison. — Canteens. — Introduction of Temperance Principles into India. — Coloured People. — Self-interest. — Missionary Labours at Port Elizabeth. — Friends of the Hottentots. — Injustice. — Stores. — Salt Lake. — Character of the Hottentots. — American Missionaries. — Zwartkops Rivier. — Euphorbias. — Floods — Uitenhage. — Howling of the Hyena 154

Chapter XI

Uitenhage. — Spring. — Sand Fountain. — Zondag Rivier. — Gras Rug. — Esculent Aloe. — Tortoises. — Salt land. — Steen-bok. — Enon. — Lions. — Moravians. — Drought. — Yellow-wood Trees. — Privations. — Wild Beasts. — Hottentot gored by a Buffalo. — Cape Buffalo. — Elephants. — Death by the bite of a Viper. — ■ Wild Cucumber. — Trials of Missionaries. — Famine. — Leopard. — Schools and Congregations at Uitenhage. — Wresting the Scriptures. — Jail and Hospital. — Julus 163

Chapter XII

Zondag Rivier. — Tortoises. — Grys-bok. — Aloes. — Fiddling at a Public-house succeeded by the howling of Hyenas. — Rhinoceros. — Quagga-flats. — Wagon Journeys. — Traffic. — Bushmans River. — Water Tortoise. — Merino Sheep. — Sidbury. — Assagai-bush River. — Fresh Oxen. — Grahams Town. — Wesleyans. — Deputy Lieutenant Governor. — Unsettled Meeting. — Temperance Reformation. — Degraded Hottentots. — Silent Devotion. — Jail. — Frost-bitten Patient. — Address of a Bechuana. — Young Christians. — Departure. — Rain. — Large Worms. — Difficulty in making a Fire. — Hyena 171

Chapter XIII

Weather.— The Koodoo.— Great Fish River.— Fort Brown.— Difficulty at the Ford. — The African Coney. — Tomlinsons Post. — Death of a Bullock. — Plants. — Travelling. — Fort Beaufort. — Spirits interdicted in Frontier Towns. — War of the Zoolus.— Missionary's Grave. — Horse Lost. — Blinkwater. — Caffer Marriage. — Costume. — Awkward Incidents. — Fort Armstrong. — Kat River. — Philipton.— State of the Hottentots.— Schools.— Temperance.— Interdiction of Strong-drink in granting lands — Missionary Anniversary.— Examination of the Schools.— Anti-tobacco Agreement. - Country.— Readsdale.— Marsdorp. — Bushmen's Drawings. — Calumnies 179

Chapter XIV

Villages.— Hottentot Thieves.— Difficulties in the way of Prosecution.— Bastaards. —Influence of Example.— Effect of Climate.— Plants.- Parrots. —Monkeys. —Heat. —Dutch Church. — Oppression.— Anticipated Effects of the VI CONTENTS. Abolition os Slavery.— Pious Gona Caffer and Fingo. — Colonial Boundary. — Quaggas. — Plants. — Flatter)-. — Shiloh. — Mission-house. — Garden. — Separa tion of Children from Parents. — Mission Villages. — Education. — Birds. — Intercourse with Chiefs. — Bushmen. — Languages of the Bushmen and Caffers. — Invasion of the Fitkani. — Return to Philipton. — Elands River. — State of the Military. — Defective views of the Gospel. — Caffer Plum. — Inquirers. — Preparations for visiting Caffraria. — Meeting with awakened Caffers .... 192

Chapter XV

Departure for Caffraria. — Travelling on Horseback. — Knec-haltering. — Vanderkemp. — Lushington. — Entrance into Caffraria. — Chumie. — Villages. — First attempt at cultivation for profit. — Breaking through Old Usages. — War. — Traders Profligate Soldiers. — Schools. — Caffers and their Customs. — Wild Hogs. — Christian Converts. — Visit to the Chief Tyalie. — Tyumie Vale. — C. L. Stretch. — Residence. — Irrigation. — Liberality of Friends. — Love Dale. — Weather. — Religious Labours. — Drought. — Rain-makers. — Interview with Macomo. — Costume. — Flies. — Interview with Botma. — Meeting of the Glasgow Missionaries. — Knaps Hope. — Convictions of Sin. — Caffer Labour. — Mode of preventing horses from being stolen. — Following the Spoor. — Praying Woman. — Visit to Notondo. — Milk Baskets. — Mode of cleansing. — Spuig Slang. — Igquibigha. — Chandalier Euphorbia. — Erythrina. — Chapel. — Predatory Warfare. — Public Worship. — Convictions of the Spirit 209

Chapter XVI

Burns Hill. — Amatola Mountains. — Caffer Kraals. — Cattle Kraals. — Irrigation. — Women destroyed on the death of Gaika. — Caffer Doctors. — Sacrificial Ceremony.— Idolatry. — " Great Place." — Sutu, the Queen Regent. — Caffer War. — Sandili, the young, principal Chief. — School. — Jacomine. — Clothing. — Pirie. — Astonishment at Gloves. — Rough Ground. — " The Praying Captain. " — Dr. Vanderkemp. — Kaffir-boom. — Subterranean Granaries. — Robberies. — Caffer-corn. — Sweet Cane. — King Williams Town. — Caffer War. — Traffic— Irrigation. — Burning out Rocks. — Alligator. — Silk. — Jan Tzatzoe. — Religious Assemblies. — Infant School. — Caffer Salutation. — Tobacco. — Umhala. — Burning Grass. — Bethel. — Acquirement of the Caffer Language. — Itemba Anteaters' Holes Trials of Missionaries. — Caffer Tortures. — Extortion. — White Ants. — Fresh-water Crabs. — Interference of a Missionary to prevent War Incantations. — Gacela. — Performance of Duty 229

Chapter XVII

Deliberateness of the Caffers. — Milk-sack. — Meal-times. — Caffer Melons. — Pumpkins. — Remarkable Caffer. — Detention at the Great Kei River. — Hunger Tecoma Capensis. — Fording the River — Presents. — Caffer Hospitality. — Honours. — Inquisitiveness. — Butterworth. — Visit of W. Fynn to N'capai. — Surprise at the power of conveying ideas by means of writing. — Dingaan. — Rocks — Fires. — Loranthus. — Council-tree. — Tambookie Caffers. — Gay Wood Caffer Cranes. — Desolate Country. — Clarkbury. — Wesleyan Classes. — Predatory Wars. — Morley. — Alarms of War. — Depa, a Polite Beggar. — Schools. — Buildings. — Produce. — UmtataRiver. — Tall Grass. — Plants. — Water Snake. — Amaponda Caffers. — Buntingville. — Christian Converts. — Darkness of the Unconverted. — Rhipsalis. — Locusts. — Famine. — State of Females. — Character of Fitcani Chiefs. — Drunkenness CONTENTS. VII

Chapter XVIII

Motives for returning toward the Cape Colony.— Fall of the Umgaziana. — Trees. — Chameleon. — Amaponda Caffers. — Snuff-boxes. — Return to Morley. — Throwing away Children. — Burials. — Cruelties of War. — Corrupt state of the Caffers. — Restitution.— Burning of Villages. — Eating Raw Flesh. — Preaching of a Caffer. — Caffer Melon. — Fording the Bashee River. — Return to Clarkbury. — Caffer's Remark on Worship. — Depredations of Hyenas. — Vultures. — Precedence given to the Bushmen. — Fingoes. — Customs and Superstitions. — Religious Attainments. — Return to Butterworth. — Secretary Bird. — Law respecting Stolen Horses. — Inhabited Country. — Ox -riding. — " Order of the Garter." — Poisonous Plant. — Fort Warden. — Traders' Huts. — Horse Shoes. — Interview with Gacela. — Eating Birds. — Fear of Poison. — Rain Maker's Impositions. — Autumnal Spring. — Fruits 267

Chapter XIX

Mount Coke. — School. — Preservation of Clarkbury and Buntingville. — Horrible Custom. — Evils resulting from the removal of Missionaries. — Discredit and Exposure of Impostures. — Rewards. — Wesleyville. — Whitewashed Caffers. — — Gonoquabi. — Cephelandra. — Plumbago capensis. — Beeka. — D' Urban. — Fort Peddie. — Fingoes. — Ox-racing. — Intemperance. — Murder by Caffers. — Newton Dale. — Caffer Language. — Crinum aquaticum. — Fish River Bush. — Wild Beasts. — Hippopotamus 279

Chapter XX

Bank of the Great Fish River. — Convenient Meeting.— Kap Rivier. — Hottentot Settlements. — Lions. — Phœnix reclinata. — Caffer-drift Post. — Clumber. — Remarkable Recovery. — Great Awakening. — Ebenezer Chapel saved by a Bible. Port Francis. — Kowie River. — Bathurst. — Kowie Bush. — Strelitzia regina. — Hyena's Hole.— Ratels. — Theopolis. — Relapses.— Country. — Salem. — R. Gush and the Caffers. — Caffer War. — Journey to Grahams Town. — Conference with Wesleyan Missionaries. — State of the Caffer Frontier. — Horses. — Principles of Friends. — Bible Meeting. — Farmerfield. — Wesleyan Stations. — Sheep-' feeding. — Temperance Meetings. — Wild Animals. — Cape Jerboa. — Hottentot and Leopard.— Nerine undulata. — Weather.— Bushmen's Drawings. — Improving Bechuana.— Meetings.— Religious Revivals.— Hottentots.— Fingoes, &c. of Grahams Town. — Interview with the Lieutenant-Governor 291

Chapter XXI

Departure from Grahams Town.— Fish River.— Convicts.— Rivers — Tomlinsons Post. Fort Beaufort. — Blinkwater. — Corruptions of Human Nature. — Horse Stealing.— Protection of the Frontier.— Caffer Police.— State of Hottentots residing in service.— Block Drift.— Thefts.— Chumie.— Outrage. — Purchasing Wives.— Philipton.— Servants.— Hottentot Preachers.— Applications for Native Teachers.— Madoor, a Bushman Chief.— Woman of the Wilderness.— Great Serpent.— Makalema, a Fingo Chief— Kalaghal, a Tambookie Chief.— Gubaguba Application of a Gona on behalf of Daman, a Bechuana Chief.— Macomo's Opinion of Teachers.— Prejudices of Missionaries.— Benefaction of Friends.— Extract of a Letter from J. Read.— Temperance Meeting.— Departure from Philipton.— Cattle.— Bechuana Servant.— Detention at the Blinkwater.—" Strong Wife. "—Weather.— First attempts to Address the People CONTENTS. in Dutch. — Deliberations of Christian Caffer Women. — Meeting with Caffers 311

Chapter XXII

Departure from the Kat River. — Grassy Land Kunap Post. — Cold and Snow. — The Springbok. — Ant Hills. — Aloe. — Emigrant Boors. — Glen Avon. — Somerset. — Rain. — Measles. — Dr. Gill. — Hydrophobia. — Hyenas. — Jail. — Lepers. — Lions. — Devotional Readings. — Clearing Fords. — Implements. — Heavy Rain. — Leopard. — Country. — Birds. — Karroo. — Cradock. — Smith's Work. — Hottentots. — Meeting. — Straying Oxen. — Intemperance. — Country — Nacht-maal. — ■ Emigration. — Bitter Melon. — Opuntia. — State of the Dutch Colonists. — Great Fish River. — Thoughtful Dutchman. — Biassed Mother. — Grotesque Hills. — Game. — Groote Fontein. — Want of Education. — Massonia. — The Gnu. — Ostriches.— The Quagga.— Thalictrum.— The Blesbok — The Blackfooted Cat. — Lion Shooter. — The Meer Kat. — Colesberg. — Claims of Aborigines. — Bushman Mission. — Teaching the Hottentots. — British Population. — Freed Apprentices. — Intemperance. — Town and Trade. — Prison. — Freedom. — Man shot by a Boor. — Banks of the Nu Gariep. — Country 325

Chapter XXIII

Griquas. — Lion. — Philippolis. — Mat Huts.— Feuds. — Religious Meetings. — Sickness. — Intemperance. — Improvidence. — Adam Kok. — Court and Revenue. — Cold. — Price of Stock. — Letting Fountains. — Dangerous Situation. — Bethulia. — Paris Missionary Society. — Barolongs. — Huts. — Chief.— Slyk Spruit. — Boors. — Country. — Beersheba. — Fraudulent Irishman. — Town. — Habitations. — Bechuanas.— Manufactures. — Wild Olive. — Caledon River. — Sowing Corn— Grain Crops. — Abandonment of Polygamy. — Treachery of Mylooza. — Expostulation with Gacela. — Native Hospitality. — Jammerberg. — Native Village. — Drunkenness. — Ornaments — Kraals. — Cultivation. — Morija. — Snow. — Goats. — Warming-house 348

Chapter XXIV

Witte Bergen. — Thaba Bossiou. — Congregation. — Zeal in learning to read. — Recognition of Acquaintance. — Mountain. — Peak. — Basutu. — Hats. — Needles. — Meeting. — Moshesh's Speech. — Caffer-corn Bread. — Polygamy. — Mocatchani. — Smoking Dakka Boesak's Parents hear of their lost Son. — Death of a Wife of Moshesh — Argument respecting Christian mode of burial. — Knowledge of the Natives before the arrival of the Missionaries. — Arrival of Boesak's Mother.— Weapons. — Ornaments. — Iron Handkerchiefs. — Burial of Moshesh's Wife. — Parting request. — Marriage of Moshesh's Son. — Feast of First Fruits. — A. Steedman's Letter 3C6

CHAPTER XXIV.

B. Country. — Large Reed. — Plaatberg. — Bastaards. — Wheat. — Carolus Batje. — Honour of Persons in Authority. — Congregations. — Wild Beasts. — Sick Child entombed alive. — Heaths. — Zantedeschia. — Grass. — Lishuani. — Destroyers of Latakoo. — Matuwani. — Griquas. — Makwatling. — Botaung. — Caffer Cranes. Mission Family. — Caffer thrown over a Cliff. — Molitsani. — Mogoya. T. L. Hodgson's Mission of Peace. — Christian Convert bound. — Destroyed Villages. — Bushmans Kraal. — Mirametsu. — Korannas. — Bushmen. — Zoolu Refugees. Burning the Grass.— Electric Columns.— The Hartebeest.— The Brindled Gnu. CONTENTS. IX — The Zebra of the Plains. — Imparani. — Mantatees. — Bechuana Wars. — Cani balism. — Sikoniela.— Predatory Wars. — Christian Converts. — Barapootsa De putation. — Cultivation. — Affection. — Self-denial. — Remarkable Predictions. — Great Awakening. — Persecution. — Martyrdom. — Answers to Prayer. — Siko niela and the Boors. — Dingaan's Treachery. — Deliverance of F. Owen. — Queen of the Mantatees. — Convictions of Sin. — James Allison 383

Chapter XXV

Wild animals. — Umpukani. — Cave. — Makwatling. — Rheumatic Fever Volcanic Mountains. — Hunting Party. — Lions. — Thaba Unchu. — Barolongs. — Labours of T. L. Hodgson. — Sifonello and his People. — Migration of the Barolongs. — Tauani. — Moroko. — Native Teachers. — Schools. — Printing-press. — Royalty. — Vermin. — Trade. — Missionary Labours. — Costume. — Karrosses.— Complexion. — Food. — Government. — Civil Arts. — Boors' Marriages. — Condescension. — Congregations. — Interdiction of Spirituous Liquors. — Servants. — Boesak takes the Measles. — Traders Hut. — Untoward Scotchman. — Barolong Guide. — Journey. — Herds of Wild Animals. — Bushmen. — Hospitable People. — Bethany. — Basaltic Hills. — Korannas. — Beads. — Koranna Christian — Bushmen's Kraal. — Bows and Arrows. — Boor and Bushwoman's Children. — Koranna Villages. — Indolence. — Uses of Cow Dung. — Language. — Death. — Huts. — Cold Chapel. — Missionaries. — Wives of Missionaries. — Error of Paris and Berlin Missionary Boards. — Measles. — Letting of Fountains. — Boors. — Fish. — Rond Fontein. — Friendly Boor. — Journey to Philippolis. — Transfer of Huts. — Emigrant Boors 407

Chapter XXVI

Sending to buy Corn. — Missionary Visitors. — Catching Springboks. — Wild-dogs. — Cold.— Indications of Spring. — Flowers. — Fever. — State of the Philippolis Griquas. — Religious Labours. — Drie Fontein. — Marseilles. — Scheid Fontein. — Scarcity of Water. — Esculent-rooted Mesembryanthemum. — Birds. — Cattle Scent Water. — Visit from Bushmen. — Poison of Arrows. — Garments. — Knapsacks. — Articles found in unlikely places. — Esculent Aloe. — Cross Mountain — Remark of a Boor. — Ramah. — Visit from two Bastaards. — Crossing the River with Wooden-horses. — Divine Teaching. — Loss of Reckoning as to Time. — Weather. — Mankey River. — Hippopotamus Station. — Scarcity. — Indolence. — Euryotis unisulcatus. — Thrifty Barolong. — Visiting. — Kameeldoorn Fontein. — Kameeldoorn. — Fear of Lions. — Vaal Rivier. — Saltpans Drift. — Tired Cattle. — Broad-tailed Sheep. — Wild Geese. — Heat. — Meeting with the Griquas. — Irrigation. — Road. — Bushman Village. — Great Orange River. — Traveller. — Aitonia. — Spuigslang Fontein. — Bushman's Fiddle. — Namaqua Partridges. — Doves. — Ostrich-egg Bottles. — Limestone. — Griqua Town. — Failure of the Spring. — Bergenaars. — Conquered Basutu. — Cheta. — Andries Waterboer. — Schools. — Buildings. — Assemblies for Worship. — Interpreters. — Awakening Kindness 430

Chapter XXVII

Journey to the Kuruman. — Kogelbeen Fontein. — Cold. — Want of Comfort. — Daniels Kuil. — First Purchase of Landed Property. — Sina Bergover. — The Eland.— The Giraffe. — Kramers Fontein.— Unruly Cattle — The Ostrich. — — Roger Edwards and Lions. — Bushwoman and Baby. — Konings Fontein. — Jackals and Quaggas.— Kuruman.— Buildings.— Gardens. — Population. CONTENTS. X — R. Moffatt. — Translation of the Scripture Lessons of the British and Foreign School Society. — Motito. — Inhabitants. — Karrosses. — Maternal Affection. — Makkwarin Fountain. — Tauns. — Kuruman. — Congregations. — Convert. — Attendants Kosi Fountain. — Bushman Music. — Acacia Robusta. — Milk-bags. — Tsantsabane. — Minerals. — Uncaria. — Rhigozum. — Ongeluks Fontein. — Moses Fontein. — Watering Cattle. — Griqua Town. — Boring-tools and Pumps. — Congregational Church. — Aged Korannas. — Slavery. — Bush men destroyed. — Native Teachers. — Acquirements. — Slates. — Awakening. — Deaconess 449

Chapter XXVIII

Departure from Griqua Town. — Thirsty Bees. — Great OrangeRiver. — Reads Drift. — Irrigation by Pumps. — Thunder-storm. — Madrepores. — Road. — Country. — Animals. — Track of Oxen. — The Caracal Duwvenaars Fontein. — Sentence for Maltreating a Hottentot Plants. — Desolate Country. — Lceuw Fontein. — Christianity and Heathenism. — Bokke Kraal. — Lions. — Dung Beetles. — Bushman and Lion. — Cold. — Winter Veld. — Vee Boor. — Vast Herd of Springboks. — Forsaken Houses. — Sick Child. — Trespass of Cattle. — Meal-times of the Boors. — First-day. — Snceuwbergen. — Forget-me-not. — Graff Reinet. — A. and M. Murray. — Congregations. — Jail. — Lions. — Eagles. — Mcsembryanthcmums — Opuntia. — Great Karroo. — The Roode Reebok. — Tortoises. — Seeds. — Vel Schoenen. — Insects. — Gastronema. — Ostrich Nest. — Traveller. — Ostrich Eggs. —Fossil Bones. — Beaufort. — Effect of Heat upon the Wagon. — Jail. — Tem. perance State of the Karroo. — Bushmen and Boors. — Capital Punishment 472

Chapter XXIX

Departure from Beaufort. — Launching into the Wilderness. — Periodical Rivers. — Red Water. — Hottentot Shepherd. — Mirage. — Dogs and Hot Ground. — ■ Brandewyn Gat. — Natal Emigrant. — Nieuwveld Mountains. — Mint. — Julus. — Baboons. — Monkey. — Destitution of Bread. — Brak Places. — Mountain Farms. — Porcupines. — Computations of Distance. — Bushman's Fiddle. — Rhinoster Rivier. — Onder Roggeveld. — Resting Places. — Karroo Fish River. — Crinum capense, — Teachable Hottentots. — Lang Fontein. — Emigrant Boors. — Reverence for the Bible. — Spirit-drinking. — Rheumatic Fever. — Bread. — Hantam. — Cultivated Land. — Rams Kop, — Brunsvigia toxicaria. — Pleasant Interview. — Sandstone Country. — Rhinoceros Bush. — Treading out Corn.. — ■ Willow. — Jackals. — Hand Mill. — Bokkeveld Mountains. — Descent of the Bokkeveld. — Aloe arborescens. — Stink Fontein. — Dabby-tree. — Book of Revelation. — Salt Water. — Granite Country. — Tafelberg. — Boors and Coloured People. — Twee Fonteins. — State of the Hottentots. — Barrow and Dr. Philip. — Kamiesbergen. — Plants. — Horned Snake. — Fresh Water.- — Arrival at Lily Fountain 497

Chapter XXX

Conference with E. Cook. — Hottentots of the Kamiesbergen. — Lily Fountain. — Barnabas Shaw. — -Oppression of the Hottentots. — Hottentot Language. — Importance of Missionaries being trained to organize Schools. — Winter. — Mat Huts. — Beautiful Garments. — Journey to Komaggas. — Erythrophila undulata. — Baboons. — The Petromys. — The Duiker, and other pigmy Antelopes. — Granitic Mountains, — Komaggas. — Filthy Water. — Horses obtaining Water. CONTENTS. XI — Mistletoes. — Colonial Boundary. — Oeg Grawep. — Testimony of J. Engel brecht. — The Gemsbok. — Robben Bai. — J. H. Schmelen. — Fishing Party. — Letters.— Seafowl. — Aukotowa. — Seals. — Whales. — Hottentot Villages. — The Flamingo. — Meetings by the Sea-side. — Thirsty Horses. — Fast. — Return to Oeg Grawep 523

Chapter XXXI

Extreme Heat. — Muishond Fontein. — Bechuana and tired horses. — Leeches. — Uitkyk Fontein. — Tobacco Pipes. — Kok Fontein. — Steinkoff. — Drying Meat. — Byzondermeid. — Aard Wolf. — Zwarte Muishond. — Restriction of Spiritual Gifts. — Grain Crop. — Food. — Hartebeest Fontein. — Ingris Fontein. — Mountains. — Calabash. — Rozyntjes. — Crossing the Orange River. — Temperature. — Tamarix orientalis. — Cheta. — Droog Rivier. — Kline Fontein. — Loris Fontein. — Ticks. — Nisbett Bath. — Elevation ofthe Country. — Mission-house. — Springs. ■ — Population. — Korikus. — Ameral, a Chieftain. — Ameral's History. — Supposed Arm of the Sea. — Wages. — Night in the Wilderness. — Xammus. — Tobacco Growers. — Lions. — Giraffes. — Damaras.— Stapelia Gordonii 541

Chapter XXXII

The Amse River. — The Social Phileterus. — Afrikaners Kraal. — Reception. — Meeting of Jan Ortman and Titus Afrikaner. — History of the Afrikaner Family. — Jonker Afrikaner. — Marauders. — David Afrikaner. — Communication with the Wesleyan Missionaries. — Conversion of T. Afrikaner. — Congregations. — Return to Nisbett Bath. — Effects of Interference with the Bechuana Mission. — Warm Springs. — Abraham Christian. — Government Gratuity. — Intoxication. — Dances. — Wages. — Paschal Supper. — Departure from Nisbett Bath. — The Zebra. — Swimming across the Orange River. — Visit to the Sick. — Change in the Animal Frame in Hot Climates. — Journey to Kok Fontein. — Gezelskops. — Brak Rivier. — M. Wimmer. — Providential Provision. — Death of M. Wimmer.— Journey to Lily Fountain. — Koper Bergen. — Ores of Metals. 560

Chapter XXXIII

Drought.— Feeding on Ants' Eggs. — Departure from Lily Fountain. — Bushman Field. — Pious Women. — Growth of Corn. — Twee Riviers. — Acts of Oppression. — Oog Fontein. — Groene Rivier. — Hottentot Villages. — Intense Heat. — Effects of the Heat. — Dragons. — Murder of W. Threlfall — Straying of Oxen. — Klip Fontein.— Valei Fontein. — Outspan Places. — Tromotriche. — Ebenezer. — Rhenish Missionaries. — Hendrik Van Zyl. — Mattys Grivin. — Olifants Rivier. — Exhausted Cattle.— Knagersberg. — Heerelogement. — Uitkomst. — Cedar Mountains. — Wupperthal. — Effects of Example. — Burial of a Hottentot. — Cedars. — Clan William 583

Chapter XXXIV

Uitkomst. — H. and M. C. Van Zyl.— A Dakka Smoker. — Guns. — Rain. — Companys Drift.— Bella-donna Lily.— Outspan Places.— Piquetberg.— Plants.— Misverstaan.— Country. — Berg Rivier. — Hippopotami. —Tulbagh. — Rhenish Missionaries. — Dutch Missionary Society. — Worcester. — Servants. — Jails. — Aerolite. — Awakening.— Hot Spring. — Zondereinde.— Fransche Hoek Pas. — Guernsey Lily. — Leopard. — Fransche Hoek. — J. Verhaag's account of Amboyna and Timor.— Sight of Table Mountain.— The Paarl.— Prejudice.— Wellington. — Wagonmakers Valley. — Malmesbury.— Groene Kloof.— Disorderly CONTENTS. Visiters. — Origin of the Moravians. — D'Urban. — Stellenbosch. — Civility. — Neologianism. — Effects of Emancipation. — Liberality of the Dutch Population. — Juvenile Emigrants. — Klip Fontein. — Return to Cape Town 602

Chapter XXXV

Friends' School. — Wees Huis. — Matilda Smith. — Purchase of Premises. — Transfer Duty. — Visit to Rondcbosch. — Return of Motingo and Seberioe to the Kuruman. — Tract on Salvation. — Sir G. T. Napier. — Military Temperance Meeting. — A Word of Christian Counsel to the White Inhabitants of South Africa. — L. Marquard. — Winter. — Visit to the Jail. — -A Christian Exhortation to the Coloured Inhabitants of South Africa. — Measles and Small Pox. — South African Tract Association. — Visit to the Penal Settlement on Robben Island. — Observations addressed to Missionaries, &c. — Occupation of the School Premises, in Buiten Street. — Police. — Meetings. — Amsterdam Battery. — Meeting in Dorp Street. — Sailors Home. — Emigration.— Presents to the Missionary Stations. — Prospect of leaving South Africa. — Labours of Missionaries. — Departure of G. W. Walker for Van Diemens Land.— Union of J. B. & G. W. W. in their visit to the Southern Hemisphere 627

Chapter XXXVI

Meetings in Cape Town. — Wynberg Woods. — D. Johns. — Visits to Prisons. — Meetings at Wynberg, Rondcbosch and Herschel. — Table Mountain. — Plants. — Rumours of Wars. — Departure. — St. Helena. — Fish. — Gulf-weed. — Azores. — Storms. — Birds. — Man Lost. — Dangerous position. — Arrival in England. — Return to York 640

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A. —Islands belonging to the Mauritian Government, with their Geographical Positions, Size and Population, taken chiefly from the " Almanach de l'ile Maurice," 1837 „ „ • page i B.— A Letter to the persons proceeding to the Islands of the Pacific, in the Missionary Ship Camden, with a view of engaging in Missionary Labours iv C. — The Way of Salvation by Jesus Christ D-— Extracts of Letters relating to Great Namaqualand xxiii E.— A Word of Christian Counsel to the White Inhabitants of South Africa XXVlll F.— A Christian Exhortation to the Coloured Inhabitants of South Africa, xxxix G.— Observations, submitted in Brotherly Love to the Missionaries and other Gospel Labourers in South Africa xl!x LIST OF PLATES, &c. Cape Town, with the Devils Hill on the left, Table Mountain in the centre, and Lions Hill on the right (Frontispiece) Map of Mauritius and Islands under the Mauritian Government page 1 Isle of Bourbon, with volcano 59 Coast of Madagascar 61 Jelly-fish, (Portuguese man-of-war) 61 Jelly-fish 62 Table Mountain and the Lion Hill 66 African Travelling 88 Zuurbraak, London Missionary Station 107 Trees of South Africa * 226 Trees of South Africa f 293 Felis nigripes, the Black-footed Cat 339 Philippolis, London Missionary Station 349 Native Huts 355 Beersheba, Paris Missionary Station 357 Hartebeest hut 358 Morija, Paris Missionary Station 364 Thaba Bossiou, Paris Missionary Station 366 Remarkable Peak at Thaba Bossiou 368 Basutu Smith's Apparatus 377 Plaatberg, Wesleyan Missionary Station 384 Lishuani, Wesleyan Missionary Station 388 Makwatling, Paris Missionary Station 389 Mirametsu, Wesleyan Missionary Station 393 Imparani, Wesleyan Missionary Station 396 Umpukani, Wesleyan Missionary Station 408 Thaba Unchu, Wesleyan Missionary Station 411 * Strelitzia regina and augusta, Podocarpus elongatus, Yellow Wood, Euphorbia grandidens?