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tage. We have great reason to be thankful that our situa- 
tion is to all human appearance a very safe one ; as from 
the nature of the country, and the difficulties of the road, 
should an enemy come suddenly, we should have little 
chance of making our escape; but in reference to all these 
matters we must remember that “the Lord reigneth.” 
On Wednesday the 24th instant, Faku, accompanied 
by about fifty of his subordinate captains, paid his first 
visit to the Station. ‘This, as you well know, is equivalent 
to a formal recognition of it as his school, under his protec- 
tion, and we may now consider ourselves as “ by law esta- 
blished.”” We testified our respect in the usual manner by 
turning out of the kraal a beast for slaughter. With the 
present of a blue cleak, an iron cooking-pot, a black ox, toge- 
ther with an assortment of beads, buttons, &c., which I pre- 
sented to him in the name of the Society, he appeared 
highly gratified ; he stated his intention of forming a fresh 
place for his cattle, upon the lower part of the ridge where 
we now are, within a mile of us, in order, as he expressed 
himself, « that we may be one house,” and our cattle may 
graze together under the same herders. This is, I under- 
stood, one of the greatest proofs of confidence a Chief can 
give, and such as I believe has never yet been shown by any 
chief at the commencement of the other Stations in this 
part of Africa. But in many respects Faku differs from 
the Caffer Chiefs. His authority is less limited, and he 
decides on matters of business chiefly on his own responsi- 
bility. His answers are given in plain and unequivocal 
language, so that it is possible for a person even not well 
versed in the intricacies of Caffer diplomatic phraseology 
to understand what he means by what he says, which is 
a rare case in this country. 
There are generally a number of natives present at our 
daily morning service, and they behave with great pro- 
