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some tea which we had brought with us, we contrived to 
make a hearty supper; but from the number of natives 
who slept in the hut with us, our sleeping accommodations 
were rather worse than usual. 
June 28th.—We proceeded a short distance, and found 
the chief, Dapa, at the Umnenga River, surrounded by a 
number of his clan, all apparently removing with their 
eattle. Dapa and his family were living among the bushes 
near the river: he is an infirm old man; his colour and fea- 
tures decidedly shew his European descent. He informed 
us, that two white men and his mother, who at that time 
was very young, were wrecked on the coast; one of the 
white men was the father of his mother; she was taken to 
wife by his own father, a native chief. He stated also, that 
his mother’s father and the other white man married native 
women, which seems very probable, for the family has 
greatly branched out, and the colour of a number of these 
people prove the extent to which it has increased. Dapa’s 
mother was wrecked, probably, eighty years ago; she died 
within the last fifteen years. We endeavoured to elicit from 
Dapa some information relative to the wreck of the Gros- 
venor, but his explanations on that subject were confused. 
He expressed great regret that the country was in such a 
state of confusion, and intimated his earnest wish that a 
missionary might be sent to his tribe as soon as the people 
were again settled. 
Among other questions, we asked whether he would make 
his kraal near the place where a missionary (if one should be 
sent) would choose to build his village? He answered this 
by asking us what he should learn, or what he should be 
the better for the coming of a missionary, if he did not live 
near enough to hear his instructions. As the enemy had 
been within a short distance of where we now were, we 
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