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or go to the woods to die, or be farther devoured, as 

 might happen ! The little girl chose the woods, de- 

 termining in this forlorn condition to cast herself on 

 the mercy of this institution ; and although she had 

 never been at the station, slie believed from what 

 she had heard, that could she reach the place, she 

 should receive the protection and help which he who 

 claimed the endearing name of father, had longer 

 refused to give, and which she had no right any- 

 where else to expect among her own nation. With 

 this resolution she set out, and although she had to 

 travel several miles through deep glens, succeeded in 

 reaching the station, an awful picture of deformity 

 and suffering, all but in a state of nudity, covered 

 with large wounds to the number of fourteen, among 

 the most ghastly of which was that of the head and 

 face ; the Wolf, having endeavoured to grasp the 

 whole head, had torn the mouth open to the ear, and 

 stripped the head of the upper part of its covering, 

 making a terrible wound of eight inches. Through 

 the mercy of God she is quite recovered, and scarce- 

 ly at all deformed ; but she refuses ever to return 

 to those who forced her into the woods to die. I 

 am happy to add, that, a few days since, as I was 

 walking a little distance from the house, I heard 

 some one in fervent prayer ; and as I could discover 

 the voice was that of a child, I made towards it, and 

 found in a little secluded spot amongst the weeds 

 my little patient, who was earnestly pouring out her 

 soul to the God of all mercies, where she thought no 

 eye saw, or ear heard her but His.'"* 



* Wanderings in S. Africa, p. 198. 



