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wig, and is frequently adjusted with great care, and dressed 
with grease and charccal. Many of them cut out a part of 
the hair in a circular form on the crown of the head; round 
the edge of this they stud a few red berries, which, together 
with some pretty feathers of various birds, complete this 
whimsical invention of human pride. None of us could be 
satisfied, until after the closest inspection, but that all these 
people actually wore wigs *. 
Note.—Some time after Mr. Shaw visited these people, the Chief, 
Dapa, sent a messenger to Mr. Shepstone, entreating that a Missionary 
might be sent to reside with him; a desire originating, no doubt, from 
other motives than that of receiving instruction. However this may 
be, so great appears to have been Dapa’s anxiety on the subject, that 
a contention had arisen between him and one of his principal men 
relative to the place where the Missionary should reside on his arrival 
amongst them, each arguing his special claim to the honour and pri- 
vilege of having the Mission premises close beside his own kraal. 
Dapa's great Captain urged, “ Your mother was married to my brother, 
she returned to my care in her old age, and by my kraal was she 
buried ; and as the Mission will spring out of her ashes, here must 
the Missionary dwell; his house must be by her graye.’’ These ar- 
guments he further strengthened by appealing to the fact, that he 
was the first man who found Dapa’s mother when wrecked on the 
coast. Dapa replied, “The institution must be mine; I first called 
for the Missionary, and he comes at my request; besides, I am the 
Chief.” “But,” rejoined the other, “did our great woman descend 
from you, or you from her? Since we are the counsellors of your 
father, if you are descended from her, even though you are a Chief, 
and an old man, you are our chzld, and cannot claim what belongs to 
your mother and not to you.” To all this reasoning, Mr. Shepstone 
(to whom the messenger repeated this conversation) replied, “A 
Missionary will be the friend of you all; and will unite you, and strive 
to do you all good: on the particular spot where he shall dwell you 
must not indulge contention.” With this answer the deputed mes- 
senger was well pleased. A Missionary Station has since been 
established at Dapa’s Kraal, laid down in the map as near the St. 
John’s River. 
* Missionary Notices, Aug. 1829. 
