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this illusion. Four Missionaries were residing here 

 with their families at the time of my visit, and the 

 great regularity which characterised every arrange- 

 ment of the society produced a favourable impression. 

 Mr. Brownlee was preparing for a distant journey, 

 with the view of forming a station on the banks of the 

 Buffalo River among the Caffers ; an able auxiliary 

 in this praiseworthy design was Jan Tzatzoe, the son 

 of one of their chiefs, a fine-looking and intelligent 

 man, about thirty years of age, brought originally 

 into the colony for education by the late Dr. Vander 

 Kemp, by whom the station at Bethelsdorp was 

 first established, and of whom he related many in- 

 teresting anecdotes with evident feelings of strong 

 attachment to his memory, and a grateful sense of 

 his instructions. 



From Bethelsdorp I proceeded on horseback to 

 Graham's Town, which received its name in token 

 of public respect for the talents and virtues of 

 Colonel John Graham, formerly commanding on 

 the frontier, and is now the principal town of the 

 Eastern province. This was the spot selected for 

 the location of the three thousand seven hundred 

 settlers who arrived in the colony from England in 

 1820, at which period this now flourishing memorial 

 of British enterprise and perseverance was an obscure 

 village. After remaining a few days at this place, 

 which I shall take an opportunity of describing more 

 fully in the course of my narrative, I obtained leave 



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