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of the two unfortunate ladies,” says Captain Stout, “ gave 
me so much uneasiness, that I most earnestly requested them 
to tell me all they knew of their situation; whether they 
were alive or dead: they replied with apparent concern, that 
one of the ladies had died a short time after her arrival at 
the kraal; but they understood that the other was living, and 
had several children by the Chief, but « Where she now is,’ 
they said, ‘ we know not.’” * 
« Hight years after the wreck of the Grosvenor Hast India- 
man, upon the Caffrarian coast, an enterprismg Cape colo- 
nist, of the name of Van Reenen, proceeded by the directions 
of the Dutch government, in 1790, in search of the sur- 
vivors of that fatal catastrophe, but without success. On 
the Omgazyana, or Little Mogassie river, Van Reenen 
and his party fell in with a numerous tribe of mulattoes, the 
descendants of Europeans and Indians by intercourse with 
the natives; among them were three old white women, 
forced into marriage with the chiefs, who had been ship- 
wrecked at a period long anterior to the loss of the Gros- 
venor. ‘They appeared to be exceedingly agitated at seeing 
people of their own complexion and description, but seemed 
much delighted at the offer of Van Reenen to take them 
and their children back ; from causes, however, hitherto unex- 
plained, their deliverance was never effected. On the arrival 
of the exploratory party at the villages of this interesting 
race of mulattoes on the 4th of November, 1790, they made 
a great rejoicing, and cried out ‘Our fathers are come !’ 
The long, long looked for day—the dawn 
I have dreamed of many a night, 
Hath broken on this blessed morn 
With its visions of delight; 
And every cherished fleeting form 
Is now palpable to sight. 
* Captain Stout’s Narrative, p. 55. 
