Excerpt from Travels in South Africa: Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society
The Missionary Society, instituted in London, in the year 1795, for the sole purpose of diffusing the Gospel in Heathen and other unenlightened countries, first directed their views to the islands of the Pacific Ocean; after which their attention was timed to the vast continent of Africa. That long neglected and much injured country appealed to the Directors to have powerful claims on their regard. Accordingly, in the year 1700 Doctor Van der Kemp, a respectable physician of Holland, who had devoted himself to the arduous and honourable office of a Christian Missionary to the Heathen, went forth from England under the auspices of the Society, accompanied by Mr. Kicherer and other pious men. Not succeeding in the establishment of a mission among the Caffres, whom he first visited, he removed to Bethelsdorp near Algoa Bay, where, with the assistance of Mr. Read and others, he formed a settlement. To this spot he was directed by the Governor of the Colony, (General Jansens,) who granted a portion of land, with cattle, and other requisites for the accomplishment of the object. Here a considerable village was formed; the knowledge of useful arts was introduced; and, as the primary object, the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached, and religious instruction afforded; so that, by the Divine blessing, a great number of the degraded Hottentots became sincere Christians and useful members of society. The progress and present state of this settlement will appear in the following pages.
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