“ This gave rise to a long series of severe and sometimes bloody conflicts between the Africaners and the chief Berend and his associates, Berend being impelled by a twofold reward, and Africaner by a desire to wreak his vengeance on the farmers who were once his friends, the instigators of the deeply-laid scheme. Though these two chiefs dreadfully harassed each other, neither conquered; but continued to breathe against each other the direst hatred, till, by the gospel of peace, they were brought to "beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks." ”

“ The missionary, Mr Ebner, who first went to Africaner's kraal, after continuing there upwards of two years, returned to his former station, and was succeeded by Mr Moffat, who was instrumental in building up the new converts in their faith, and adding to their number, and maintaining peace amongst them. Indeed, from the day the gospel entered the kraal, they ceased to disturb the peace of the neighbouring tribes; for, so far as the truths of that precious gospel are influential on the minds of men, they produce peace on earth, and love towards each other. ”

“ Afterwards, the family lived with another boor, named Piemaar, at a farm on the banks of the Elephant's River, which is the largest, except the Great Orange River, on the western side of South Africa; and in such a country may literally be called a river of life, for trees grass, &c., for a little distance from its banks look green, healthy, and lively; but beyond, all is a barren waste.
It was about this time that the Cape colony first came under the government of the English, by being captured from the Dutch. ”

“ Arriving at Pella, (the place as before stated to which some of the people from Warm Bath had retired when the latter was destroyed by Africaner,) we had a feast fit for heaven-born souls, and subjects to which the seraphim above might have tuned their golden lyres. Men met who had not seen each other since they had joined in mutual combat for each other's woe; met-warrior with warrior, bearing in their hands tho olive branch, secure under the panoply of peace and love. ”

“ A farmer, named Engelbrecht, and a Bastard Hottentot, fell the victims to his fury, and their cattle and other property were carried off, to atone for the injuries inflicted by the machinations of the farmers. Africaner now became a terror, not only to the colony on the south, but also to the tribes on the north. The original natives of the country justly viewed him as a dangerous neighbour, even though he had obtained, by lawful means, a portion of their country. ”

“ A report was circulated by evil-minded persons, that all the Hottentots were to be forced to become soldiers, and to be sent out of Africa. This report made old Africaner and his sons resolve to retire beyond the bounds of the colony, to escape being forced into the army. However, they still continued in the service of Piemaar, the boor, who sometimes employed them on plundering expeditions against the defenceless natives of the interior, furnishing them with muskets and powder for that purpose. ”

“ However, on arriving safe at the missionary station at Pella, on the western side of Africa, he wrote a letter to Africaner, expressing regret that he should be the occasion of so much misery and oppression in that part of Africa-that as he knew there was a God, and a judgment to come, he stated his belief to Africaner that he must be an unhappy man, by being the cause of so much unhappiness to others. ”

“ We are not acquainted with the particulars of what passed, but tho preaching and conversation of this missionary were blessed of God; for, some time afterwards, Africaner expressed himself to the following effect:
"I am glad that I am delivered. I have been long enough engaged in the service of the devil, but now I am free from his bondage. Jesus has delivered me; him will I serve, and with him will I abide."
Several other natives were converted to God, a Christian congregation was formed, and Africaner was taught to read the sacred Scriptures, in which he took much pleasure. ”

“ The greater portion of this continent lies under a vertical sun. Within the tropics, or middle part of Africa, the aborigines, or natives, are generally jet black, and to the north or south they are of a dark-olive colour. In the whole of that vast continent, no natives of a white complexion are to be found. When a white person appears in any of the African countries for the first time, he is an object of great terror to the natives, especially to the women and children, who immediately run from his presence.
Most of its inhabitants are totally unacquainted with snow and ice ”

“ Many of the converted heathens also in South Africa have contributed very liberally of their little property to assist in sending the gospel to other regions where it has not penetrated.
In the latter end of the year 1818, Mr Moffat contemplated visiting Cape Town, and the idea darted into his mind, that Africaner would do well to accompany him, and accordingly he made the proposal to him. "The good man," says Mr Moffat, "looked at me again and again, gravely asking whether I were in earnest, and seemed fain to ask if I were in my senses too ”

“ My former life is stained with blood, but Jesus Christ has pardoned me, and I am going to heaven. Oh! beware of falling into the same evils into which I have led you frequently but seek God, and he will be found of you (illegible text) direct you. ”

“ Africaner and his brother Jager dared not to visit Cape Town themselves after the murders and plunders they had eommitted in the colony, and they were obliged to employ others to procure for them what they wanted from thence. On one occasion, about the beginning of the year 1811, they employed a man, named Hans Drayer, to purehase a waggon for them at the Cape, which is a vehicle of great value in such countries for travelling, &c. ”