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STATE OF THE SCHOOL. 
[1820. 
sal spread of the gospel among the heathen. 
The address was from Matt. xxiv. 14. 
9th. This day, the Landdrost's brother and 
Captain Black arrived on their way to Lattakoo. 
Waterboor, a native teacher, gave the address at 
the evening meeting. He appeared to speak 
with seriousness, and sometimes with energy, 
and what I understood of it was simple and 
scriptural. Mr. Moffat left us in the morning to 
accompany the Landdrost to Lattakoo. 
At an examination of the school there were 
about thirty children who read the New Testa- 
ment tolerably well; others read short words, 
and the remainder knew the letters. One hundred 
and six were present, and this I was informed is 
the average number of scholars who attend in 
winter, when many of the inhabitants have re- 
moved to the banks of the Great River, because 
the climate is warmer, and the grass more plen- 
tiful. In summer the daily attendance is about 
one hundred and sixty. 
12th. The Auxiliary Missionary Society, which 
had been formed in Griqua Town six years ago, 
was broken up in the second year, owing to the 
misrepresentations of a boor, who had absconded 
from the colony, and for want of proper persons 
