ever, I began to feel a violent turmoil within, and a fulness of the system, as if the arteries would burst, while the pulsation was exceed-. ingly quick, being accompanied with a slight giddiness in the head. We made the natives understand that I wanted the fruit of the solanum, which grows in those quarters nearly the size and shape of an egg, and which acts as an emetic. They ran in all directions, but sought in vain. By this time I was covered with a profuse perspiration, and drank largely of pure water. The strange and painful sensation which I had experienced gradually wore away, though it was not entirely removed for some days.

"I was deeply affected by the sympathy of these poor Bushmen, to whom we were utter strangers. When they saw me laugh, they deafened our ears with expressions of satisfaction, making a croaking and clicking, of which their language seemed to be made up. And these barbarians to the letter showed us no little kindness,' for they gave us some meat of zebras, which had died from drinking the same water on the preceding day. This was very acceptable; for having fasted that day, we were all ready for a meal; and,

though the poisoned water had partially blunted my appetite, I enjoyed a steak of the blacklooking flesh mingled with its yellow fat."

But we will not follow the adventurous missionary further on this journey. Disappointed in the objects of their search, the party returned to the former station, where Mr. Moffat resumed his labours.

CHAPTER VI.

Africaner goes to Cape Town-A farmer's surprise-Returns to his people— His peaceful death.

AFRICANER was taken by surprise when Mr. Moffat proposed that he should go to Cape Town. He said to the missionary, "I thought you loved me, and do you want me to go where I shall be seized and hung?" And then putting his hand to his head, he said, "Do you not know that I am an outlaw, and that 1000 rix dollars have been offered for this poor head?"

So terrible had been the name of Africaner in times past, and so fearful had been his ravages among the colonists, that the government had offered a reward for his head, and it was very natural for him to think that if he should go within the reach of the white men, they would seize him and put him to death. But after Mr. Moffat had assured him that he

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thought it would be a good thing for him to go to Cape Town, and that his life would be perfectly safe, Africaner said, “I shall commit my way to the Lord. I know he will not leave me."

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The point was soon decided, and preparations were made for the journey. A large company followed the chief and the missionary when they set out; and the incidents of the journey are so interesting that we shall let Mr. Moffat describe them in his own way.

"Arriving at Pella, a missionary station already mentioned, we had a feast fit for hea ven-born souls, and subjects to which the seraphim above might have tuned their golden lyres. Men met who had not seen each other since they had joined in mutual combat for each other's wo; met-warrior with warrior, bearing in their hands the olive branch, secure under the panoply of peace and love. They talked of Him who had subdued both, without a sword or spear, and each bosom swelled with purest friendship, and exhibited another trophy destined to adorn the triumph of the Prince of Peace, under whose banner each was promoting that reign in which—

"No longer hosts encountering hosts,
Their heaps of slain deplore;

They hang their trumpet in the hall,
And study war no more.'

"We spent some pleasant days while the subject of getting Africaner safely through the territories of the farmers to the Cape was the theme of much conversation.

To some the

Africaner

step seemed somewhat hazardous. and I had fully discussed the point before leav ing the station; and I was confident of success. Though a chief, there was no need of laying aside any thing like royalty, with a view to travel in disguise. Of two substantial shirts left, I gave him one; he had a pair of leather trousers, a duffel jacket, much the worse for wear, and an old hat, neither white nor black, and my own garb was scarcely more refined. As a further precaution, it was agreed, that for once I should be the chief, and that he should assume the appearance of a servant, when it was desirable, and pass for one of my attendants.

"Ludicrous as the picture may appear, the subject was a grave one, and the season solemn and important; often did I lift up my

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