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PIETY OF A MATCHAPPEE. 
[1820. 
travelled with me to the Marootzee, and was 
glad I had returned safe, though Dr. Cowan had 
never returned. That he would willingly have 
gone with me to the Cape, but he could not leave 
his family during the present scarcity of provisions. 
I thanked him for his company to the Marootzee, 
and told him I thought it was better he did not 
go to the Cape, for it w^is a very long journey ^ 
but when I reached England, I should send him 
out some beads to purchase more cattle for the 
support of his family. I was afraid he was about 
to ask me for a musket, which I should have 
been under the necessity of refusing. 
A poor female Matchappee, named Manyena, 
called and told me, that when she first heard of 
the Bible she did not think it was true, but 
when she found it describe her heart so exactly, 
she could not but believe what it said. She was 
determined, she added, always to live near some 
place where the word of God* was preached, 
where she might hear about a crucified Saviour, 
though she should starve. Jesus died for sinners 
and she would not leave the word. She prayed 
that I might be carried back safe to the Cape 
and to England. 
