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 260 APPENDIX : sit apart from them, and putting his hands on each side of his face, would sit rocking himself backwards and forwards, singing softly and sweetly some hymn he had learned ; sometimes it would be the line, " When they die, to heaven will go," but he would always put it, " When I die, to heaven I'll go." He died fourteen months after he entered the school. Little Kojonotpat, who had increased in favor with all who knew her, died suddenly three years after Mrs. Camfield took her. It is contended in the report that their faults are not greater than those of children of European descent, and that they are quite as capable of compre- hending the truths of the gospel as any white child is. Some of them take particular pleasure in reading the Scriptures, and all the elder girls will answer questions on them with as much intelligence as the generality of children in Sunday-schools, and they quickly find any passage referred to. The eldest girl was engaged to be married to a well-conducted, sober, industrious "conditional-pardon" man on 1st August 1858. She was by her usefulness and other good qualities in every way calculated to make a happy home for her future husband. Another girl was married to a young man, a European. She will bear comparison with any white woman among the most respectable of the laboring population, as a sensible and companionable girl. Two other girls — one black and the other half-caste — make good wives to their respective husbands, one of whom is an old settler. The children in the asylum are a merry-hearted set, and are now engaged in working on the marriage outfit of Rhoda, who is greatly beloved by all of them. They are intelligent beings, callable of great improvement, if not as great as Europeans are. I will here relate a little anecdote of Rachel, one of the school girls mentioned by Mrs. Camfield. In 1863, I visited the Moravian Mission near Lake Hindmarsh, and again in 1872, on which last occasion there were sixty-four Aborigines permanent residents, of whom a considerable number were children. Mr. Spieseke, the Missionary in charge, informed me that since these people became married and led regular lives, dwelling in their own cottages, their children had greatly increased in number. On my first visit, in 1863, I was chiefly concerned to see Rachel, or Mrs. Pepper as she then was. Her husband was an Aborigine, I believe of the Lake Hindmarsh tribe, who had been educated and had visited England. On his return voyage, the ship called in at King George's Sound, where he was introduced to Mrs. Camfield's school ; and being fascinated with the charms of Rachel, proposed marriage, and was accepted, with the understanding that she should follow him to Victoria, which in due time she did, and they were married and residing at the Mission Station when I was there. I called at the station on a Sunday, and found the village nearly deserted, many of the people being at church. Mr. Spieseke, the Moravian Missionary in charge, was preaching to them. There were about thirty-five present — men, women, and a few children. They appeared to be very attentive ; and I was much pleased with their singing, good behaviour, and cleanly appearance.