242 VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. chap. ix. 



Harsent and his family, as well as other friends, and en- 

 couraged by witnessing the beneficial effects of missionary 

 labours amongst people of colour, both Hottentots and Fin- 

 goes. During this period I spent a Sunday and part of two 

 days with Mr. Paterson at the pleasantly situated and well-* 

 watered village of Uitenhage, and was thus made acquainted 

 with the many grounds of encouragement which cheer the 

 missionary in his labours amongst the colonial people of 

 colour and the Fingoes. At Bethelsdorp, where Mr. Mer- 

 rington, notwithstanding the discouragements of the locality, 

 still continues his indefatigable labours, we met the mission- 

 aries of the district at their periodical gathering, and were 

 glad thus to confer with them unitedly on the affairs of their 

 several stations. 



At Port Elizabeth we disposed of our waggon and oxen, 

 trusting, for the remainder of the journey, to the kindness of 

 friends and to hired conveyances, chiefly the rough and 

 rapidly travelling mail carts. On the 24th of April we left 

 Algoa Bay, and in the evening of the following day arrived 

 at Hankey, on the Gamtoos river, having travelled in a waggon 

 which Mr. Durant Philip had kindly sent for us. Here, and 

 at the adjacent branch station of Kruis Fontayn, we remained 

 a week, and, amongst other objects of interest, visited the 

 tunnel, which with great labour has been cut through the 

 mountain for the purpose of conveying the water of the 

 river over a large tract of fertile and valuable land. 



In a secluded spot in the mission garden, and under the 

 shade of a large weeping willow, repose the mortal remains of 

 Dr. Philip, also those of his estimable wife, his oldest son, 

 and other branches of his family. I felt a mournful satis- 

 faction in visiting the spot, believing, as I do, that high as is 

 the estimation in which his memory is held by many, coming 

 generations in South Africa will value him even more highly, 

 and will class him among their sincerest friends, and ascribe to 



