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hold did not understand French, we usually had a short 

 English service with the European portion of the family, 

 Mr. Kelsey holding his usual daily service with the domestics 

 about the premises in French. 



Until within a few months of our arrival, Mr. Kelsey and 

 his family had resided at Grande Eiviere, about two miles 

 from Port Louis, in a southerly direction. While here they 

 had endeavoured to be useful among the Creole population of 

 the place, and were greatly encouraged by the assistance of a 

 pious woman of colour, a domestic in their own family, 

 who first began by instructing her fellow-servants, then 

 extended her efforts to others, and then engaged a room for 

 the purpose of religious worship. Messrs. Le Brun visited 

 the place every Sunday afternoon, and once in the week 

 besides. The numbers attending became so numerous, as to 

 render it necessary to add another room by taking down a 

 partition, and finally a third, all of which were at this time 

 well filled with serious and attentive hearers. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Kelsey had generously defrayed the expense of the place, 

 and rejoiced in the benefit which the people of colour at 

 Grrande Riviere enjoyed in the faithful preaching of the 

 Grospel amongst them. 



Early in the month of December, I accompanied M. Le 

 Brim, senior, to the celebration of the anniversary of their 

 labours here. About seventy persons were present, who 

 listened with seriousness and apparently devout attention 

 to a plain and affectionate discourse from the venerable 

 pastor. I was not surprised at the satisfaction his arrival 

 seemed to afford when I remembered his labours for their 

 benefit, which had often excited my sincere admiration, 

 when I had seen him, after preaching to a large congregation 

 in Port Louis, and allowing only a very short interval for 

 rest, set off for a walk of two miles in the middle of the 

 day, the thermometer standing perhaps at 84° or 86°, for the 



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