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but finding it was not so, they soon bought all the more 

 costly Bibles with avidity. 



Mr Moffat's labours, for the first ten years of his mi- 

 nistration, were not attended with any apparent success ; 

 and a large body of the tribe left the district in which 

 he preached ; and went a hundred miles away, in order 

 to get out of the reach of his preaching, thinking tc 

 live in their own way without any stings of conscience ; 

 but in the latter respect they were mistaken, for the 

 seed of the Gospel had taken root in their hearts, and 

 they were obliged to send to the missionaries for assist- 

 ance, and their chiefs used to go backwards and for- 

 wards for teaching: there was a constant relay going 

 to the missionaries and coming back to teach those whom 

 they left at home. When first visited by the mission- 

 ary, one hundred were considered proper subjects for 

 baptism, and the Church there now numbers upwards of 

 three hundred in that one village. Many native mission- 

 ary stations are dispersed around. It is an indisputable 

 fact that when a man feels the value of the Gospel him- 

 self, in his own heart, he is ever anxious to impart its 

 blessing to others. Travelling still in the south, I de- 

 termined to visit a tribe called the I3akwains, resolving to 

 go to the country beyond Kuruman, and when I com- 

 menced preaching the Gospel to them, I seemed as one 

 who came with a lie or with some political object in view % 

 hence they received me with suspicion, saying, " It is too 

 good to be true," adding, " this man has some other de- 



