CHAP. XLI. 
OCCURRENCES AFTER MY RETURN TO CAPE-TOWN. 
During my residence at Cape-town, after my 
return from the interior, but few circumstances oc- 
curred worthy to be related to the public. I was glad 
to find a religious society formed in the meeting-house, 
composed almost entirely of soldiers, who had chosen 
Mr. Tliom for their pastor, and to whom they were 
much attached. Besides those who were members of 
the society, a considerable number of other soldiers 
regularly attended. After the first sermon that I 
preached to them after my return, a serjeant said to me, 
" Strange, Sir, that I should have come from England 
to Africa to become acquainted with Jesus Christ." I 
told him that I knew a person who went much farther 
on the same errand, viz. from England to the East 
Indies. 
November l6th. In the evening we met with about 
sixty of the friends of missions, in a large room at the 
house of Mrs. Smutz, to whom Mr. Read gave an 
account of our journey in the Dutch language, in 
which the company appeared to feel a lively interest. 
