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encourage them with regard to the future. Their country is 

 fertile, their grazing-ground good, and it is said that they 

 possess eight or ten thousand horses, besides other stock. 

 They bid fair to be a prosperous people, could they but feel 

 security, and it is to be hoped that the recent proceedings in 

 connection with the Orange Eiver territory, of which they so 

 loudly complain, will be reviewed, and thus the evils they so 

 justly fear be averted, and the wrong they have suffered be re- 

 dressed. Owing to the discouragement so naturally felt, their 

 settlement was not in such good order as it might otherwise 

 have been ; but several persons were building good houses, 

 and they seemed very much in earnest in their endeavours to 

 secure the best possible means of future improvement and 

 safety. One of these measures was the thorough education 

 of their children ; and, in order to effect this, they sent a 

 waggon and two team, or twenty-four oxen, to Cape Town, to 

 bring down a well-qualified schoolmaster and his family to 

 reside amongst them, guaranteeing him the means of com- 

 fortable support. 



The public religious services on the Sabbath day were 

 well attended here. Upwards of a hundred waggons, bring- 

 ing families from a distance of five, ten, or even twenty 

 miles, arrived on the Saturday evening, and on the follow- 

 ing morning the church, capable of holding about 700 

 persons, was filled, while many remained outside. The 

 ordinance of the Lord's Supper was afterwards administered, 

 and in the afternoon Mr. Edwards, who had arrived on the 

 previous evening from an adjacent station, preached to a 

 considerable number of Betchuanas in their own lanofuasre. 

 The religious proceedings of the day included the baptism of 

 two Griquas, and, on the following morning, a young couple 

 were publicly married, receiving, as they retired, the con- 

 gratulations of a number of their friends, including some of 

 the chief people of the place. We closed the religious en- 



