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chap. jx. GOOD FEELING AMONG DIFFERENT CLASSES. 251 Africans, and the enlightened and judicious measures of the governor, may have unitedly contributed to this. But to whatever cause it is to be ascribed, it is alike honourable to the white man and beneficial to the coloured, and it will be regarded by the best friends of the country as an earnest of the time when equity, and good faith, and right feeling shall characterise the intercourse of the several classes with each other, and constitute them one united, loyal, and prosperous community. Having remained at Cape Town two or three weeks after the termination of my journey, I embarked on board the “ Pacific ” steam-ship from Australia on the 14th of June; and, after touching at St. Helena, St. Vincent, and Madeira, reached England on the 18th of July, 1855, grateful to the Almighty Disposer of all things for the health and the merciful pro tection I had experienced throughout my wanderings.