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a small elephant's tusk, which he presented to me, 

 saying, " I am anxious not to be considered a lying 

 man ; I now, therefore, fulfil the promise which you 

 tell me I made to you in Graham's Town." He 

 added, that he would come down and finish the talk 

 in the morning. Not long afterwards the church bell 

 began to ring for evening prayers ; it was an agree- 

 able sound in this remote vale, and brought soothingly 

 to my recollection the scenes of other lands far distant. 

 Proceeding to the church, in which were assembled 

 fifty or sixty Gaffers, clad for the most part in their 

 ox-hide karosses, with beads, buttons, and various 

 little charms hung about their persons, and smeared 

 over with a profusion of red clay, which increased 

 their wild expression of countenance, and told at 

 once that it was a heathen congregation shrouded in 

 all the gloom of mental darkness, and sunk to a 

 degree of degradation from which Christianity alone 

 could raise and elevate them into heirs of God and 

 immortality. Mr. Shaw questioned them through 

 an interpreter, as to what they remembered and un- 

 derstood of the address delivered to them on the pre- 

 ceding day. Many of them gave very acute and 

 pertinent replies, evidently showing that they had 

 profited by the zealous exertions of their pastor. On 

 his inquiring what was to be expected from those 

 who had joined the church, (two having been bap- 

 tized and admitted to communion the day before) 

 one of them replied, that he was to cast off his old 



