South Africa -- Description and travel; South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909; South Africa -- History -- To 1836
I was glad to find that the Kafir-scholars at Healdtown among them paid
£200 per annum towards the expense of the Institution. The Government
grants £700, and the other moiety of the total cost--which amounts to
£1,800,--is defrayed by the Wesleyan missionary establishment at home.
As the Kafir contribution is altogether voluntary, such payment shews an
anxiety on the part of the parents that their children should be
educated. As far as I remember nothing was done at Healdtown to teach
the children any trade. It is altogether a Wesleyan missionary
establishment, combining a general school in which religious education
is perhaps kept uppermost, with a training college for native teachers
and ministers. I cannot doubt but that its effect is salutary. It has
been built on a sweet healthy spot up among the hills, and nothing is
more certain than the sincerity and true philanthropy of those who are
engaged upon its work.
My friend who had carried me off from Fort Beaufort kept his word like a
true man the next morning, in allowing me to start at the time named,
and himself drove me over a high mountain to Lovedale. How we ever got
up and down those hill sides with a pair of horses and a vehicle, I
cannot even yet imagine;--but it was done. There was a way round, but
the minister seemed to think that a straight line to any place or any
object must be the best way, and over the mountain we went. Some other
Wesleyan minister before his days, he said, had done it constantly and
had never thought anything about it. The horses did go up and did go
down; which was only additional evidence to me that things of this kind
are done in the Colonies which would not be attempted in England.
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