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 see him before I die; and when you return, as sure as the sun is over our heads, I will go with you to see him, though he killed my own uneleuncle [sic].' I was not before aware of this faetfact [sic], and now felt some hesitation whether to diseoverdiscover [sic] to him the objeetobject [sic] of his wonder; but knowing the sincerity of the farmer, and the goodness of his disposition, I said, 'This, then, is AfrieanerAfricaner [sic]' He started baekback [sic], looking intensely at the man, as if he had just dropped from the eloudsclouds [sic]. 'Are you AfrieanerAfricaner [sic]?' he exelaimedexclaimed [sic]. He arose, doffed his old hat, and, making a polite bow, answered, 'I am.' The farmer seemed thunder-struekstruck [sic]; but when, by a few questions, he had assured himself of the fact, that the former bugbear of the border stood before him, now meek and lamb-like in his whole deportment, he lifted up his eyes, and exelaimedexclaimed [sic], 'O God, what a miracle of thy power! what cannot thy grace aceomplishaccomplish [sic]!' The kind farmer, and his no less hospitable wife, now abundantly supplied our wants; but we hastened our departure, lest the intelligence might get abroad that Africaner was with me, and bring unpleasant visitors.

"On arriving at Cape Town, I waited on his ExeelleneyExcellency [sic] the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset, who appeared to reeeivereceive [sic] with eonsiderableconsiderable [sic] seeptieismscepticism [sic] my testimony that I had brought the far-famed Africaner on a visit to his Excellency. The following day was appointed for an interview, when the ehiefchief [sic] was received by Lord Charles with great affability and kindness; and he expressed his pleasure at seeing thus before him, one who had formerly been the seourgescourge [sic] of the eountrycountry [sic], and the terror of the border eolonistscolonists [sic]. His ExeelleneyExcellency [sic] was