1 10 KINDNESS OF THE COLONISTS. 
weeping pleasure, too deep for utterance, with which 
he was embraced by his relatives, the cordial and 
hearty reception given him by his friends, and the 
joyous greeting bestowed upon him by all, might 
well have put to the blush those heartless calumni- 
ators, who, branding the savage as the creature only 
of unbridled passions, deny to him any of those 
better feelings and affections which are implanted 
in the breast of all mankind, and which nature has 
not denied to any colour or to any race. 
Upon entering the town I proceeded direct to 
Mr. S her rats’, where I had lodged when in King 
George’s Sound, in 1840. By him and his family 
I was most hospitably received, and every attention 
shewn to me ; and in the course of a short time, 
after taking a glass of hot brandy and water, per- 
forming my ablutions and putting on a clean suit of 
borrowed clothes, I was enabled once more to feel 
comparatively comfortable, and to receive the many 
kind friends who called upon me. 
I feel great pleasure in the opportunity now 
afforded me of recording the grateful feelings I 
entertain towards the residents at Albany for the 
kindness I experienced upon this occasion. Wet as 
the day was, I had hardly been two hours at Mr. 
Sherrats before I was honoured by a visit from Lady 
Spencer, from the Government-resident, Mr. Phillips, 
and from almost all the other residents and visitors 
at the settlement, — all vying with each other in their 
kind attentions and congratulations, and in every 
