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ing day. Mr. and Mrs. Botman gave us a hearty wel- 
come back to their house. 
28th. From some mistake our oxen did not return 
from feeding at a distance till six in the evening. We 
took leave of our kind friends and departed at seven. 
The evening was cool, and we had the advantage of 
a moon a quarter old for three or four hours. We con- 
tinued our journey until four o'clock in the morning, 
when we halted opposite to a boor s place, all of us 
much tired with our journey. 
29th. The day being cool, we got into motion about 
eleven, A.M. and arrived at Zwartland Kirk, at three 
P.M. where we halted, and spent three hours in con- 
versation with Mr. Schoaltz, the parish minister, who 
told me that the first place of worship he had attended 
in England was my chapel in Kingsland ; and what is 
more singular, that the first time two other ministers 
(out of seven) in the colony spoke in public, in the 
English language, was in Kingsland Chapel, viz. Messrs. 
Kicherer and Vos of Zwartberg ; and that the first 
time Mr. Bakker of Stellenbosch prayed in English 
was in the same place. I thought these were curious 
coincidences. 
« 
Mr. S. has an elegant house and large garden, but he 
was low spirited, having never recovered his cheerful- 
ness since the death of his only son. Living retired, 
and doing little, the loss preys upon his frame : nothing 
but Calvary can cure such diseases of the mind, 
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