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for some time. The moon set, reddened by a kind of haze, which 
by degrees spread all over the sky, and covered the lower ran- 
ges of hills, leaving no marks, by which we might discover our way 
in the dark. We now reached a place where two roads met, one 
taking a westerly, and the other a northerly direction. Solomon 
walked forward on each, and returned with very evident marks of 
dismay in his countenance. "Well Solomon/' said I, "which way 
are we to ride.^" " Ah, Sir," replied he, "I am lost. God must help 
us! Mynheer must decide, and we shall be right." The roar of 
the sea to westward was now very distinct, and knowing, that to- 
wards that quarter we could not err, I chose the western road, on 
which we proceeded with our weary horses for some time, till per- 
ceiving the light of a fire, apparently at a short distance before us, 
we made towards it, and after much anxiety, the tire appearing and 
vanishing by turns, as though it fled from us, we at length arrived at 
it. Here we found two waggons, with two slaves sleeping on the 
bare ground, to whom we were announced by the barking of their 
dogs. We dismounted, and turned the horses loose, to seek a supper. 
Solomon, oveijoyed at finding a resting-ph^ce, exclaimed, " Well, I 
" knew, that the road Mynheer would chuse, must be the right 
" one, though he has never been here before." The slaves in- 
formed us, that we were at the Diep-Revier, and in the right way to 
Groenekloof. Brother Lemmerz and ] kept aAvake, and fed the 
fire with bushes; but Solomon, with a saddle for his pillow, lay down 
on the ground, and instantly fell asleep. It was now two o'clock, 
and we spent the following two hours in agreeable conversation, 
chiefly on the mercies of the Lord shown to us during our whole 
lives, but particularly on our late voyage and journies together; to 
our brethren, engaged in the service of this favoured mission, and 
to the Hottentot race, in sending the gospel to them. I believe His 
eye was upon us in this wilderness, and He filled our hearts with 
His love and peace. 
^ Our situation presented a picture worthy of the pencil of the most 
expert artist. Two men, sitting on stones near a fire, the blaze ot 
