But the schoolmaster was depressed at the prospect of such company.

'Besides you and me, he's the only white man in the place.

It's a poor look-out on the social side.' The school, it appeared, was the merest farce.

There were only five white children, belonging to Dutch farmers in the mountains.

The native side was more flourishing, but the mission schools at the locations got most of the native children in the neighbourhood.