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peace and happiness that would prevail under his plan, 

 and had he taken any notice of Sechele it would have 

 been a virtual confession, that he had made a mull : con- 

 sequently the chief and myself met with little encourage- 

 ment. He had an interview with the Governor, to whom 

 he delivered a letter from me, offering to point out the 

 whole of the children, but all to no purpose: it is 

 convenient sometimes for governors to be deaf, and shrug 

 their shoulders, and to put political expediency before 

 individual right. • The British officers at the Cape, how- 

 ever — for English officers, wherever they are, are al- 

 ways fond of fair play — advised Sechele to go on, and 

 subscribed £113 for him; but not knowing the value of 

 money, he soon spent it all, giving a sovereign where 

 sixpence would do, and so on ; so that he found 

 himself, at length, a thousand miles from home, and 

 as poor as when he started. Instead of feeling angry 

 at the ill-success of his mission, he began to preach 

 to the natives around, and many anti-slavery tribes 

 enlisted under him : consequently he has now many more 

 people than he had before, and finds it hard work 

 to be both priest and king. He opened a prayer- 

 meeting, and, in fact, became his own missionary 

 among his own people. He built himself a house and a 

 school, and was the means of converting his wife. The 

 people clustered around him, and there is every reason to 

 believe that he is a sincere Christian. 



What we greatly need is more missionaries to sow 



