1839
December
Wesleyan missionary Joseph Tindall works with missionary Cook at Warmbad (until April 1842). Tindall is followed by Benjamin Ridsdale (01.02.1844-1847) who meticulously describes ||Khauxa!nas (or Schans Vlakte). He is followed by missionaries Macleod (from 01.02.1844), John A Bailie (1848-1850), Richard Ridgill (1855-1858), John Thomas (1857-1859), J Priestley (1859-1864) and Timotheus Sneeue (1863-1864), as well as M Godman (1864-1866), the last of the Wesleyan missionaries.
1840 The London Missionary Society transfers its activities to the Rhenish Missionary Society.
A sizeable whitewashed stone church seating 500-600 people is built by Jonker Afrikaner in Windhoek (Klein Windhoek; present-day St Paul’s College).
Amraal Lambert settles at Naosanabis (present-day Leonardville).
The Patriarch "King", Dawid Dawids (approx. 1840-1940), of a group later called the Riemvasmakers, is born. He is believed to have been an Omuherero whose descendants were suppressed by the Nama. Dawids led his group, also called Nama speaking Ovaherero (Herero-Orlams), through the south of the territory (later, after their return from South Africa in 1895, to be relocated at Vaalgras/Koichas (|Hai-|Gāsib)(1908)) to the north-western Cape in the 1860s, to settle in the Augrabies area. Oral history has it that during the drought 1829/1830 these Ovaherero groups moved south  where they came into conflict with the local Nama communities (Kai||khaun in alliance with Jonker Afrikaner)(Goman torob: the Cattle War). They are also thought to be direct descendants of Ovaherero prisoners of war captured during the Orlam wars in the 1860s.
The leader of the Kai||khaun, !Na-khom Gamab, dies. His successor is Chief  ||Oaseb !Na-khomab. ||Oaseb and his Nama community settle an area in the vicinity of their Orlam allies, Jonker Afrikaner, in the valley of the Skaap River (Kubakop River), Rehoboth (|Anhes) and Tsebris.
08.02. Wesleyan missionaries Edward Cook and Joseph Tindall together with James Backhouse and GW Walker, visit Afrikaner’s Kraal at Blydeverwacht (Jerusalem). They meet Chief David Afrikaner (Hendrik Afrikaner) and Titus Afrikaner (who is baptised in the mean time) as well as the group leaders of the Bondelswarts (!Gami-#nun), Jan Ortman and Jantjie van der Byl. The Orlam Afrikaners from Jerusalem separate from Jonker Afrikaner.

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"Robber Henrick's Place": Narudas: March 1988
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The Narudas Ruins: Details of the Walls: View to the East: March 2001
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View onto the Narudas Fort in a southerly Direction: March 2001
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The Narudas Ruins: View to the Southwest into the Great Karas Mountains: March 1988 and 2001
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The Narudas Ruins: View to the North, to the Narudas Peak: April 2003
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Access Climb to the Narudas Ruins from the North: April 2003
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View from the Narudas Ruins to the Northwest into the Narudas Gorge: April 2003
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View from the Narudas Ruins to the South to the highest Point of the Ruins: April 2003
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View from the Narudas Ruins to the East in direction of ||Khauxa!nas: April 2003
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The highest Point of the Narudas Ruins: April 2003
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