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fruit. In the afternoon attended to the concerns of 
the settlement. 
12th. Visited the smith's shop, where some of the 
people were at work in the best manner they could, 
but having no one to instruct them, they are not great 
proficients in the art. 
13th. At the morning prayer meeting, Cupido 
from Bethelsdorp, Berne the Captain, with Messrs. 
Anderson and Read engaged in prayer. Thermometer 
at eight A.M. 49, and ice a quarter of an inch thick 
was in the water. While reading on a hill behind the 
village, the bell rang for worship, the sound of which 
among the hills at once strongly brought to my recol- 
lection the country now very far distant, where I spent 
my earliest years. After Mr. Read had preached, we 
partook together of the Lord's Supper, at which were 
present, Griquaas, Hottentots, Dutch, English and 
Scotch, commemorating the death of Him who died 
for the salvation of men of all lands under heaven, 
and whose gospel is suited to the wants of all the 
tribes of the earth. In the afternoon I preached, 
through two interpreters, to the Corannas. When 
I had spoken a sentence in English, Mr. Anderson 
repeated it in Dutch, and a third person, (Captain 
Kok,) in the Coranna tongue. This process was not 
so tedious as might be supposed, but I observed that 
it required at least double the time to express it in the' 
Coranna language, as in English or Dutch. The text 
was 1 Pet. ii. 2. About three hundred attended, 
