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time employed in crossing them was thirteen days, at the end 
of which, on the 12th April, they arrived within the confines 
of the colony, not sorry to have brought so near to a con- 
clusion a long and fatiguing journey, the novelty of which 
must necessarily have been purchased at the expence of 
much of the ordinary comforts and conveniencies of life. 
" We praised God,"' says Mr. Truter, " for his gracious 
" assistance and protection through our long and dangerous 
" journey over deserts wide and unfrequented, rivers deep 
" and rapid, into the midst of a strange nation inhabiting a 
" region hitherto unexplored." 
END OF THE JOURNEY. 
