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perior force, and there does not appear any pros- 
pect of escaping, they make no resistance, but 
calmly allow themselves to be butchered. The 
Bushmen are said to do the same. Therm. 71. 
I attended a meeting of young people in the 
evening, chiefly Hottentots. Among them were 
six Matchappee females. They related what they 
remembered of the sermons they had been hearing 
during the day. The Matchappee girls recollected 
much more than all the others, or perhaps, by not 
feeling the least abashed, they spoke freely what- 
ever came into their minds. On one occasion, 
when they were relating what they remembered, 
I asked a Matchappee girl if she was afraid of 
death? She instantly answered, she was. But 
why, I inquired, was she afraid of it? After a 
little hesitation she said—because it was a very 
bitter thing, she did not like it. 
There was present a little black boy who could 
read and write. At the conclusion of the meeting- 
he repeated the Lord's Prayer in Dutch, line by 
line, the rest repeating it after him, exactly as it is 
done by the clerk and congregation in the English 
establishment. His name was April ; he had 
been with his mother, sister, and younger brother 
on a distant hill, living upon roots, and almost 
famished, when they were brought to Lattakoo, 
and assisted b]^ the Mission. 
