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villages in Africa, called Rodezand, and also Kirk 
Street, near Tulbach. It consists of a long row of hand- 
some houses, with terraces in front, and disjoined from 
each other by an intervening space. They look towards 
the west, and stand on a gentle dechvity. On the op- 
posite side of the way runs a crystal stream under a 
row of trees, from whence gardens belonging to each 
house extend to a small river at the bottom of the de- 
scent ; along the opposite bank of which stands a low 
hill, covered with bushes similar to those generally seen 
in green-houses in England. The Minister's Palace, 
(for it deserves that name,) stands at the north end of 
the street, as a public building, and is a great orna- 
ment to the street. A handsome church, built in the 
form of a cross, as all the Dutch churches in Africa 
are, (a custom imported from Rome,) stands at the 
south end, but the view of it from the street is inter- 
cepted by a clump of trees. The houses being all re- 
markably white, have a clean, lively, and cheerful ap- 
pearance. 
In the morning the circuit court, which had been at 
Tulbach for a few days, left it to proceed to Graaf 
Reynet. This was the third circuit the court had 
made. It originated from various reports being circu- 
lated for some time after the Cape was taken by the 
English, concerning murders of the Hottentots by the 
boors. A letter from one of our missionaries, con- 
taining such reports, was printed in a periodical work 
in England, which reached the Cape during the govern- 
ment of Earl Caledon, who, anxious to ascertain the 
