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pass by any one, but admit them all in due order. At length we 
reached and entered the Avaggon, when they began, with one voice, 
losing their farewell-hymn. 
At this moment, I felt all resistance to my feelings give way. 
Never have I experienced a keener pang, on leaving any place, or 
any friends, to whom I was attached. Gnadenthal is indeed a spot, 
where I have found myself so much at home, and where almost 
every object conspired to fill my mind with grateful remembrances 
and contemplations, that, though convinced of my duty to proceed 
to Groenekloof, where business of importance to that settlement 
demanded my presence, I found it necessary to do violence 
to my feelings, to tear myself loose. But my spirit will often 
dwell in those hallowed groves, accompany the congregation into 
the house of prayer, attend them during their truly solemn assem- 
blies, behold with affection and delight the pious labours of their 
teachers, participate in their joys, their sorrows, and their cares, 
and enjoy an aftertaste of the heavenly comfort attending the ad- 
ministration of the holy sacraments, by the presence and power of 
our Lord and Saviour. 
The whole missionary family, and about a hundred and fifty 
Hottentots, small and great, on foot or on horseback, accompanied 
us beyond the Sonderend, as far as Badenhorst's farm, where, 
placing themselves in a semicircle, they sang another farewell- 
hymn, and finally bade adieu. The Brethren Thomson and Lem- 
merz kept us company, till we arrived at Mr. Klemm's, on Ser- 
jeants Revier. 
The Gnadenthal range of mountains was covered Avith snow, 
upon which the sun shone with great splendor. We reached the 
AVarmbaths about five in the evening, but to our sorrow, found oar 
good friend. Dr. Hassner, very ailing. His spirits, however, revived, 
and we spent a pleasant evening at his house. 
12th. In the morning, the doctor was betfeer. He had met 
with a sejious loss, by the death of a slave, who, besides being i 
useful and sensible servant, was a good jonier, and cost hiui 
