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chap. viii. AGEEEABLE VISIT TO GEAAF BEINET. 209 at intervals, twice crossing the Sunday river, and walking a considerable way in the dark, we reached Graaf Eeinet at a late hour, having travelled during the day about fifty miles. The missionary at the station kindly welcomed us, and soon provided food for the horses, and refreshment and lodging for ourselves. The rest of the next day, which was the Sabbath, was truly welcome after six days’ travelling. The driver reported the horses well, but very hungry, so we hoped they would hold out, as we had no more deserts to cross. In the forenoon I attended public worship, where about five hundred coloured people assembled in their neat and spacious stone chapel, which had been recently enlarged. It was the day on which the claims of those who were fighting the battles of England in the Crimea, were, according to previous an nouncement, presented by the missionary to the notice of the people, and their collection towards the Patriotic Fund in England amounted to more than ten pounds. Collections of a similar kind were about this time made in most of the missionary congregations of people of colour, and this was about the sum which several of them contributed, a sum not indeed large in itself, but as an expression of sympathy and good feeling highly commendable. The following day we spent in visiting the school, and de liberating with the minister and the people on the affairs of the station, and the more immediate objects of my visit. On the morning of the 21st of February we took our departure, the good people furnishing us with a team of eight strong oxen to drag our waggon to the top of the Sneuwberg, an ascent of eight miles, and afterwards to help us on a day’s journey beyond. On our way out of the town we called on one of the people, formerly a slave, but now living in a very respectable house, and the proprietor of an excellent vineyard, orchard, and other property. When taking leave he called p