calculated to produce the most fatal consequences throughout the country; and have chosen rather to suffer, with their teachers and friends, the destruction of their property, and even to risk their lives in the protection of their benefactors, than become partakers in the spoils taken from the Colonists. It is a pleasing and important feature in the history of this calamitous affair, that not less than one hundred lives of British subjects have been preserved from impending destruction through the influence of the Missionaries, aided by the exertions of their faithful followers; and if any additional evidence be required to establish the fact that great advantages have resulted from the labours of these devoted men, the plain and impartial statements in the foregoing pages of an individual unconnected with sect or party, of scenes which came immediately under his own observation, cannot but afford a convincing proof of their utility. Thus it is evident that the reason why a greater influence has not been exerted over the various tribes inhabiting that country, is that the Missionary efforts have been conducted on a scale far too contracted for such a vast population; had the whole country been brought under the same moral cultivation as at the Missionary institutions, we should not now have to deplore the loss of life and sacrifice of property which this terrible calamity has occasioned. Few can have perused the statements contained in these pages, in reference to the degraded character of the people, without feeling impressed with the conviction, that nothing short of imparting the Gospel to the entire population will render them a peaceable and happy people. THE END. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PART THE THIRD. CHAPTER I. Leave Cape Town for Lattakoo-Stupendous Pass-Miseries of African Travelling-Neuwveld Mountains-Storm-Distressing Story- Klipspringer - Winterveld- Celebrated Lion-hunter- Pastoral state of the Boors-Beautiful appearance of the Country -Excessive Heat-" Mirage"-Oxen alarmed at Lions-Run off with Waggons-Scarcity of Water-Hottentots prefer Water to Wine-Reach the Banks of the Orange River-Bushmen and Vultures-Flight of Locusts-Cross the River on a Raft-Soli- tary ride with a Bushman-Surprise a Party of Natives bivouack- CHAPTER II. Berends's Attack on Matakatzee-Description of Griqua Town-Wa- CHAPTER III. Murder of Lober and Son-Moonlight Scene on the Banks of the Orange River-Bushman's Kraal-Anecdotes of Bushmen- Thunder-storm-Ostrich Nest-Melancholy Accident-Gems- boks-Tremendous Hail-storm-Awkward situation-Enraged Farmer-Immense Flight of Locusts-Beaufort-Zwartberg- b CHAPTER IV. Report reaches Cape Town of the loss of the Ship Jessie.-Proceed to the Wreck-Hottentots' Holland Kloof-Meet a Boor-Obtain further Particulars-Three Shipwrecked Mariners-Their account of the Wreck, and providential Escape-Reach the Beach- Melancholy Scene-Dyer's Island-Meet the Captain of the Vessel and one of the Passengers-Return through a wild and solitary Country Moravian Establishment-Thoughts sug- CHAPTER V. General Descriptions of African Zoology-New Species of Animals, together with various Specimens of Natural History, collected CHAPTER VI. Caffer Irruption-Speech of an old Caffer Chief-State of the Country previous to the War-Cause of the frequent collisions between the Colonists and Caffers-Border Policy-Moral condition of the PART THE FOURTH. APPENDIX, No. 1. Some particulars of the Expedition lately dispatched from Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, for the purpose of exploring Central Africa -Account of the Progress of Discovery in South Africa, up to the period of the departure of the Expedition.-Page 145. Journal of a Traveller.—The Author accompanies the Expedition |