CHAP. IV. LE BRUN’S LABOURS AT GRANDE RIVIERE. 85 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 Grande Riviere, about two miles from Port Louis, in a southerly direction. While here they had endeavoured to he 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 Grande Riviere enjoyed in the faithful preaching of the Gospel amongst them. Early in the month of December, I accompanied M. Le Brun, senior, to the celebration of the anniversary of their labours here. 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