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stivers, and parted with them most chearfully to aid 
the cause of missions. This was a most happy evening 
to me. It gladdened my heart to behold these blessed 
fruits of the gospel. 
11th. We designed to have set off at four in the 
morning, on our return to the Cape, that we might 
avoid travelling during the heat of the day, but 
by some mistake, we all arose about one o'clock, 
and departed about three, when we travelled for 
some time by star light, but the sun rising in splended 
majesty, the darkness fled away. At seven A.M. we 
halted near a pool of water where we breakfasted, 
and then went forward to a farm house where we rested 
during the hottest part of the day. About five in the 
evening we arrived at Cape-town. 
I was informed of a circumstance relating to Cape- 
town which greatly surprised me, viz. That genteel 
females, having spurious children, go openly to church, 
and in presence of two thousand people present them 
to be baptized, and as in other cases, the names of 
mother and children are inserted in the weekly news- 
paper; the names of such were pointed out to me. 
This is a degree of bold effrontery unknown in England, 
especially amongst genteel people ; but how ladies of 
character can witness it, is, to me, rather mysterious. 
On the 12th of January, 1814, I waited on His 
Excellency, the Governor, on his return from the 
interior, who informed me that he had given to the 
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