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CAPE-TOWN. 
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tea in a thicket of trees near the house, which was re- 
freshingly cool, during which about a dozen girls read 
the scriptures and sang a hymn. 
In the evening we had a meeting in the chapel ; the 
service as before. On returning to the mission-house, 
we united in prayer for success to the mission at 
Groene Kloof. 
On the 12 th we all rose at four o'clock in the 
morning; had coffee with the brethren and their 
wives, who appear helps-meet ; after which we got 
into our waggon, when a few Hottentot females 
sang a hymn, which was a prayer for us, when we 
took leave. On clearing the thicket and passing the 
end of the village, we found about forty Hottentots 
in a group, who sang a farewell hymn, which we 
answered by singing, Praise God from whom all 
blessings flow, &c." The whole looked as if we had got 
back to the Paradisiacal age. Dreadful must be the 
wickedness of that part of the world where such insti- 
tutions could be opposed. Great good they may do, 
but harm they cannot do. The government of the 
colony, to their honour, have been kind to them. The 
poor Hottentots, in their own way, all bid us farewell, 
which was returned, and not by any one without 
emotion. They stood looking after us as long as we 
were in sight. 
On our return to Cape-town, we found that Mr. 
and Mrs. Sass, missionaries from Silver Fountain, had 
