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Updated: July 10, 2025


Their congregation was increased by the desperado Jager, afterwards Christian Africaner, a Hottentot outlaw, who, with part of his people, occasionally attended to the instructions of the missionaries; and they visited the kraal of this robber chieftain in return.

The party that set out was a large one, including Africaner, three of his brothers, and Moffat. The country which they passed through was sterile in the extreme, and the expedition proved a failure. They therefore returned home again after an absence of a few weeks.

Upon his removal, and a more fitting minister of the Gospel taking his place, a great change was soon observable in Africaner; and, from having been one of the most remorseless pursuers of his vengeance a firebrand spreading discord, war, and animosity among the neighbouring tribes he would now make every concession and any sacrifice to prevent collision and bloodshed between contending parties.

"The Mission station having been for some time broken up by this attack of Africaner, Mr C, a missionary, anxious to restore it, wrote a letter to Africaner on the subject, and received a favourable reply, and a Mr E was sent to the residence of Africaner himself. After a short time, Africaner and his two brothers, with a number of others, were baptised.

Moffat once said that during his entire residence among this people, he remembered no occasion on which he had been grieved with Africaner or found reason for complaint; and even his very faults leaned to the side of virtue. On his way to Cape Town with Mr. Moffat, a distance of six hundred miles, the whole road lay through a country which had been laid waste by this robber and his retainers.

Taking some calomel he speedily recovered, and was soon at his post again. The place where Africaner dwelt being quite unsuitable for a permanent mission-station, on account of the scarcity of water, it was determined to take a journey northward to examine a country on the border of Damaraland, where it was reported that fountains of water abounded.

There was nothing they knew of that would lead men like the Bechuanas to bring war to an end, and no longer rob and kill. Mr. Moffat was especially warned against the notorious Africaner, a chief whose name was the terror of the whole country.

C., a missionary, anxious to restore it, wrote a letter to Africaner on the subject, and received a favorable reply, and a Mr. E. was sent to the residence of Africaner himself. After a short time, Africaner and his two brothers, with a number of others, were baptized.

I mean one that might be brought forward as convincing evidence to those who have shown themselves inimical or lukewarm in the cause." "Yes," replied Swinton, "the history of Africaner is one; and there are others, although not so prominent as that of the party to whom I refer." "Well, Swinton, you must now be again taxed. You must give us the history of Africaner."

Africaner then hastened back to his people, collected them and all his cattle, with what effects they could take with them, and directed his course to the Orange River. "He was soon out of the reach of his pursuers, for it required time in so scattered a district to collect a sufficient force.

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