LIFE OF SEEKLORY. 
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He married his present wife, Serone, a Kalli- 
harry woman, while he was in the service of 
Kok. When Mr. Read came to the Griqua 
country, on his way to commence a mission to 
Seeklory's countrymen, at Lattakoo, which he 
could not do without a Bootshuana interpreter, 
Seeklory, being able to speak both the Dutch 
and the Bootshuana languages, offered himself as 
interpreter to the mission till the Missionaries 
should acquire the Bootshuana language. 
When the Matchappees, under Mallayabang, 
went on an expedition against the Kalliharry 
people, to capture cattle, they were defeated, 
but carried off Serone, who was then young, 
and brought her to Lattakoo. Upon one occa- 
sion, having stolen something from her master, 
she was to be put to death. Lucas, a Griqua, 
who travelled with me a fortnight, when crossing 
Africa, during the last journey, happened to be 
at Lattakoo at that time, and hearing of the cir- 
cumstance, prevailed on her master not to put 
her to death, but to give her to him, and he took 
care of her. When I visited Campbell, on the 
former journey, she was there, and some ad- 
dresses from the word of God, delivered at the 
waggons, being impressed on her mind, led her 
to make more inquiry concerning the religion 
of Jesus Christ, and she is now considered a real 
