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the boat between a fin and the body, we took off a number of 
white, round, living animals, of the barnacle kind, about an inch 
in diameter, cleaving to her skin; as likewise a creature armed 
with fangs and tweezers, said to be a whale-louse. The whales 
frequent these bays chiefly to spawn, and almost all those caught 
here are females. 
The delay occasioned by this circumstance, prevented my ac- 
companying the Rev. Mr. Hesse and his family to the residence 
of Mr. Zorn, late landdrost of the Cape district. Mr. Poleman, 
however, took me out in his gig. I met there Mr. Bresler, for- 
merly landdrost of Graaf Reynet, and Mr. Matthiesen, a member 
of the Court of Justice. I was glad of an opportunity of expres- 
sing the thanks of our Society to Mr. Zorn, for the kindness he 
always showed to our missionaries, when they first occupied Groe- 
nekloof. The afternoon was pleasantly spent, and we all returned 
to town on foot. The night was warm, and the heavens brilliantly 
bespangled with stars. But for the absence of the leaves of the 
oaks, poplars, and other foreign trees, the weather about this time 
was equal to the finest summer-weather in Europe. 
Mr. Hesse walking with me, we entered into much interesting 
conversation concerning the difterence, more of expressions and 
forms, than of opinions and doctrines, which distinguish the Lu- 
theran and the Brethren's Churches. He thought, however, that 
there existed some material difference, as to our views of certain 
religious tenets, and that, at least, the Brethren had expressed 
their sentiments very unintelligibly. This is granted to have been 
the case in former times, for which many apologies have passed 
unnoticed. But as to those peculiar doctrines, which constitute 
the very essence of Christianity, the divinity and atonement of 
Christ, salvation by grace alone, justification by faith, and the 
necessity of a walk conformable to the word of God, we and all 
true believers of every denomination, have always agreed, how- 
ever we may otherwise differ in non-essentials. The more the 
