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encourage them with regard to the future. Their country is 
fertile, their grazing-ground good, and it is said that they 
possess eight or ten thousand horses, besides other stock. 
They bid fair to be a prosperous people, could they but feel 
security, and it is to be hoped that the recent proceedings in 
connection with the Orange Eiver territory, of which they so 
loudly complain, will be reviewed, the evils they so justly 
fear be averted, and the wrong they have suffered be re¬ 
dressed. Owing to the discouragement so naturally felt, their 
settlement was not in such good order as it might otherwise 
have been; but several persons were building good houses, 
and they seemed very much in earnest in their endeavours to 
secure the best possible means of future improvement and 
safety. One of these measures was the thorough education 
of their children; and, in order to effect this, they sent a 
waggon and two team, or twenty-four oxen, to Cape Town, to 
bring down a well-qualified schoolmaster and his family to 
reside amongst them, guaranteeing him the means of com¬ 
fortable support. 
The public religious services on the Sabbath day were 
well attended here. Upwards of a hundred waggons, bring¬ 
ing families from a distance of five, ten, or even twenty 
miles, arrived on the Saturday evening, and on the follow¬ 
ing morning the church, capable of holding about 700 
persons, was filled, while many remained outside. The 
ordinance of the Lord’s Supper was afterwards administered, 
and in the afternoon Mr. Edwards, who had arrived on the 
previous evening from an adjacent station, preached to a 
considerable number of Betchuanas in their own language. 
The religious proceedings of the day included the baptism of 
two Grriquas, and, on the following morning, a young couple 
were publicly married, receiving, as they retired, the con¬ 
gratulations of a number of their friends, including some of 
the chief people of the place. We closed the religious en- 
