OCT.] 
JOURNEY IN THE COLONY. 
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In the forenoon Mr. Bellote, the parish minister, 
very politely sent his horse waggon to take us to Tul- 
bach, a small village higher up the valley, where the 
Landdrost and the other public officers of the district 
reside. We waited with our friend Mr. De Lanse on 
Mr. Van de Graaf, the Landdrost, who received us in 
a friendly way; and on our return halted at Mn 
Bellote s. 
The people have built a good meeting, and pur- 
chased a good house for our missionary Mr. Vos, who 
assiduously labours among the slaves there and in the 
region round about. In the evening we visited the 
slave-school taught by his son, and were much pleased 
with the progress the slaves and Hottentots had made 
in^ reading, some of whom, though thirty years of age, 
were labouring to acquire the art of reading. 
23rd. Spent the day in conversation with the mis- 
sionaries Vos and Kramer, about missionary concerns. 
24th. Heard a sermon in the parish church in the 
forenoon, and Mr. R. preached to slaves and others in 
the afternoon and evening. 
2oth. Was happy to find that neither the Landdrost 
fior parish minister, had any objection to our sending 
inissionaries to the Hottentots at Kamis Mountain, or 
to the Bastard Hottentots at Cedar Mountain. We 
had a pleasant meeting with friends of missions at Mr. 
P. F. Theron's, at Winterhook, which lies about five 
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