CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT.
CONCLUSION.
For several years Von Bloom led the life of an elephant-hunter.

For several years the great nwana-tree was his home, and his only companions his children and domestics.

But, perhaps, these were not the least happy years of his existence, since, during all the time both he and his family had enjoyed the most estimable of earthly blessings,--health.
He had _not_ allowed his children to grow up without instruction.

He had _not_ permitted them to lapse into the character of mere "Bush-boys." He had taught them many things from the book of nature,-- many arts that can be acquired as well on the karoo as in the college.
He had taught them to love God, and to love one another.

He had planted in their minds the seeds of the virtuous principles,--honour and morality,--without which all education is worthless.