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an excuse for breaking his word with Mr. Shepstone, as he 
earnestly covets the piunder of the country between the 
Umtata and Bashee rivers, where there are no Chiefs of 
much ability to make any opposition. 
10¢h.—Itinerated in the direction of Mount Lowry, at 
the foot of the first range of mountains, and slept at a 
kraal belonging to a sister of Faku’s, near that mountain. 
I stated at different kraals the object of the mission, and 
invited the people to send their children to school. 
1lth.—I proceeded through a very mountainous and 
broken country, as far as the river Zimyooboo. Here is a 
very dense population, and very extensive cultivation. The 
scenery is very grand; but the fatigue of dragging a weary 
horse up these high hills precludes the possibility of any 
enjoyment of natural beauties. My last visit this journey 
was to a party of Bushmen, living in some wretched sheds 
close to the Zimvooboo. ‘They usually roam about between 
that river and Natal, shooting elephants, the flesh of which 
they eat, and exchange the ivory with Faku's people for 
corn and tobacco. ‘I'wo of their Chiefs hearing that white 
men were living at Faku’s, came to see the Station, and 
having received trifling presents, were gratified with their 
reception. One of these men interpreted my interpreter’s 
Caffree into the Bushman language, and, for the first time, 
one hundred and twenty of those wanderers heard the words 
of everlasting life. 
12th.— Baptized my interpreter’s child in the presence of 
a congregation of above one hundred people, besides chil- 
dren, explaining at the same time the nature of the ordi- 
nance, and the obligations consequent upon it. Such oppor- 
tunities are of great use in helping to fix the attention of a 
degraded and besotted people, upon whom, humanly speak- 
ing, all labour and the use of ordimary means seems to be 
thrown away. 
