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to be able to attend the Sunday services in a eburcli, after 
being so many weeks without an opportunity of doing so. 
October 20th, Bisbop Colenso came to see us tbis 
morning, and after luncheon we drove out to wish the 
party at Bishopstowe good-bye, hoping to meet them 
again some day in England. In the evening we went to 
the Legislative Council then in session, the gallery being 
open to anyone that choose to walk in. The Council is 
composed of about sixteen members; and if all their 
evenings are equally dull, I don't wonder at the strangers' 
gallery being so little frequented, as to afford admission, 
without any restrictions, to the general public. 
October 2\st, Busy making our final arrangements for 
departure. I settled accounts with Dubois and paid off 
the Caffres, old ^^Slangey" of course being very dis- 
satisfied with his share, although I paid him more than he 
was entitled to, and had given him several things besides. 
We went to take a last look at the old wagon we had lived 
in so long, and looked upon as a house in which we had 
passed a very pleasant holiday, but which seemed very 
desolate, now that it was emptied of the wonderful medley 
it used to hold. I spent all the afternoon in stowing away 
the heads and skins in an enormous case that was made 
to take them, and left it to be sent after us by the first 
wagon going to Durban. All our other heavy luggage 
had been packed and sent off two or three days before, so 
our preparations were all ready for a start to-morrow. 
Woodroffe came in to dine with us and say good-bye. 
We wished him good luck and every happiness in his new 
life, the wedding being fixed to come off in a few weeks. 
October 22nd. Left Pieter-Maritzburg at 6-30 in the 
'bus, an opposition machine, that had just begun to run 
and drawn by mules, several of which were hardly to be 
called broken, and were most unmanageable; and what 
with the harness being rotten and the roads abominable, 
