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INTRODUCTION. 
pletely checked our progress. Shortly after its 
commencement, the mainmast was fomid to be in 
a very damaged state. In consequence of this 
discovery, it was thought necessary to return to 
Liverpool, where we arrived on the evening of 
Dec. 5th ; but so quickly was our mast replaced, 
that we set sail a second time, Dec. 10th, and 
being favoured with a fair and frequently with a 
strong wind, we crossed the tropic of Cancer on 
the 22nd of Dec, the Equator Jan. 8th, 1819, the 
tropic of Capricorn Jan. 20th ; and on Feb. 26th 
landed safely at Cape Town, where, under the 
hospitable roof of my friends, Mr. and Mrs. 
Breda, of Kloof-street, I experienced a very kind 
reception. 
The affairs of the Missionary Society, and the 
necessary preparations for a journey into the 
interior, detained Dr. Philip and myself in Cape 
Town until May 4th, when, accompanied by 
Messrs. Evans and Moffat, the Missionaries, we 
proceeded to visit the missionary stations, si- 
tuated in the vicinity of the eastern coast, and 
within the colony of the Cape ; these are Ca- 
ledon Institution, formerly called Zurebrak ; Pa- 
caltsdorp, formerly Hooge Kraal ; Bethelsdorp 
and Theopolis in Albany on the confines of CafFre- 
land. As accounts of these parts of the colony 
have been given by Lichtenstein, Barrow, Latrobe, 
and also by myself, in a former journal, and as 
