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proved very pleasant and useful, as both during the course of the 
evening, and in the morning of the 
28th. I was favoured with much conversation with his Excel- 
lency, concerning affairs of consequence to the Mission, when I 
again had many proofs of his favourable disposition towards it. 
Having an engagement at Capetown in the evening, I returned 
on horseback, though it rained hard. 
29th. My Groenekloof friends introduced me to Mr. Sebastian 
Van Khenen, where we dined. This gentleman has been a friend 
to the Groenekloof Mission from its beginning. Having for- 
merly travelled all over the colony, he gave us some interesting 
information on several topics, but particularly on the state of 
agriculture, in the colony. His remarks, founded on long expe- 
rience, respecting the regulations now adopted to improve the rear- 
ing of produce, and the breed of cattle and sheep, the introduction 
of better implements of husbandry, the frequent change of Gover- 
nors, and the new taxation, appeared just and well supported. 
30th. We attended divine worship at the Lutheran church, where, 
as the Rev. Mr. Hesse informed me, some extraordinary music 
was to be performed, to solemnize the commemoration of the deli- 
very of the Augsburg Confession. I expected some ecclesiastical 
anthem in the good old Lutheran style, but was sadly disap- 
pointed. By way of a prelude, the organist, a very clever perfor- 
mer both on the piano-forte and violin, assisted by about six or 
eight of the military band, treated us with the middle movement 
of Haydn's military symphony. The performance of this mar- 
tial piece was surely a very improper preparation for religious 
worship. On Mr. Hesse's entering the church, and stepping 
before the altar, he pronounced the words; Holy is God 1 
Holy is God! the Lord of Sabaoth!" Between each sentence, a 
choir, consisting of four or five men, sung the same words to 
music, pretending to be the Sand us in Haydn's first mass, but 
strangely altered and mangled. The singers had no copies written 
out for their use, but, turning their backs to the congregation. 
