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Not long after this painful occurrenccoccurence [sic], the friends of Hans, with the assistance of some Namaquas, in their turn, attacked the kraal or town of Africaner; who, to be revenged upon the Namaquas for aiding the friends of Hans against him, afterwards fell upon their kraal. Finding themselves too weak to resist him, they implored assistance from the Namaquas at Warm Bath; who, complying with their request, sent out a large armed party to defend them. This conduct so enraged Africaner, that he threatened destruction to the settlement at Warm Bath.

Under the apprehension of certain destruction from so resolute a savage, Mr Albrecht, the missionary and his wife left that station, removing what goods they could, and burying the rest in the earth in hope of returning at a future period: but the mission was never resumed; for, after enduring some fatiguing journeys, Mrs Albrecht, (formerly Miss Bergman, from Holland,) died at Silver Fountain, in Little Namaqua-land, as some thought of a broken heart. After this, Mr Albrecht took up his residence at Kamiesberg and Pélla. He died, not long after, of a dropsy, probably occasioned by the bad water in that part of the country.

Africaner accomplished his threat, for he attacked the Namaquas at Warm Bath, and carried off a great number of their cattle, and continued to molest them, till at length the mission house and the chapel were burnt, and the inhabitants of the village almost entirely dispersed, and most of them obliged to live upon