CAPE-TOWN. 
arrived, with old Captain Kok, from the same place; o 
with whom we had much conversation aboat the state 
of things there. 
On the 17th I visited, in the morning, Mrs. Smit's 
free school for slaves, which meets two or three times 
a week, and contains about 150 people, black and 
brown, from six to thirty years of age. Mrs. Smit 
sat on an elevation in the centre of the meeting-house, 
where she teaches to read, leads the singing, and con- 
cludes the service by a solemn prayer. Several ladies, 
and three or four males, assisted in the instruction of 
the scholars. 
