CHAP. IV. LE BRUN’S LABOURS AT GRANDE RIVIERE. 
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hold did not understand French, we usually had a short 
English service with the European portion of the family, 
Mr. Kelsey holding his usual daily service with the domestics 
about the premises in French. 
Until within a few months of our arrival, Mr. Kelsey and 
his family had resided at Grrande Kiviere, about two miles 
from Port Louis, in a southerly direction. While here they 
had endeavoured to be useful among the Creole population of 
the place, and were greatly encouraged by the assistance of a 
pious woman of colour, a domestic in their own family, 
who first began by instructing her fellow-servants, then 
extended her efforts to others, and then engaged a room for 
the purpose of religious worship. Messrs. Le Brun visited 
the place every Sunday afternoon, and once in the week 
besides. The numbers attending became so numerous, as to 
render it necessary to add another room by taking down a 
partition, and finally a third, all of which were at this time 
well filled with serious and attentive hearers. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kelsey had generously defrayed the expense of the place, 
and rejoiced in the benefit which the people of colour at 
Grrande Kiviere possessed in the faithful preaching of the 
Gfospel amongst them. 
Early in the month of December, I accompanied M. Le 
Brun, senior, to the celebration of the anniversary of their 
labours at this place. About seventy persons were present, 
who listened with seriousness and apparently devout attention 
to a plain and affectionate discourse from the venerable 
pastor. I was not surprised at the satisfaction his arrival 
seemed to afford when I remembered his labours for their 
benefit, which had often excited my sincere admiration, 
when I had seen him, after preaching to a large congregation 
in Port Louis, and allowing only a very short interval for 
rest, set off for a walk of two miles in the middle of the 
day, the thermometer standing perhaps at 84° or 86°, for the 
