bear with us.' They are very cunning and captious in their questions and answers.

"In August, one of the Tambookies began to use the plough: he himself held the plough, his eldest son was driver, and the younger led the oxen. It succeeded well, and gave great pleasure to all of them. They were laughing and talking about it all day. In general, they are indeed a very merry race. The ploughman declared he was not tired; and, in the following days,he ploughed several acres of his neighbors' fields. He related, that when we were digging the foundation of our two first houses, many Tambookies removed from the place, under an idea that they would soon die, for we were digging their graves. "After the Tambookies had learned the ten commandments and the Lord's prayer, it became customary with them to correct or rebuke each other by quoting them. Thus, in case of any petty theft being committed, they not unfrequently accosted the culprit with the words, Tell us what is the eighth commandment.' Observing one of them working on Sunday, I followed their custom, and repeated the fourth commandment, which caused the man to desist immediately, and, without any attempt at self-justification, to carry his axe into the house.

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Paarl. 35 miles north-east of Cape Town-1819-one missionary, several native assistants.-Communicants, 33scholars children, 150.; adults, 50.

Tulbagh. 75 miles north-east of Cape Town-one missionary.-Communicants, 5—scholars: infant, 47; evening, 62; Sunday, 22 adults and 20 children. An increasing regard to instruction.

Caledon. 120 miles east of Cape Town-1811, renewed 1827-one missionary.-Hottentots belonging to the Institution, 783-communicants, 46— scholars day, 120; sewing, 22; Sunday, 130 to 200 adults, the younger of whom make good progress. Some apprentices come 40 miles to attend public worship.

Pacaltsdorp. 245 miles east of Cape Town-1813-one missionary, one assistant.-Population in 1834, 1242-Sunday, congregation, averaged in July 1834, 400scholars infant, 117; day, 175; sewing, 56; Sunday, 60 adults.

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Hankey. Near the Chamtoos river1825-one missionary, one assistant.Inhabitants, 600-communicants, scholars: infant, 50 to 60; day, 110. Government has granted the Hottentots 800 acres of land; part of which is capable of irrigation, and may be cultivated as gardens. This increase of the means of subsistence brings a greater number under Christian instruction.

Bethelsdorp. 450 miles east of Cape Town-1802-two missionaries.-Population, 1200--communicants, 140-scholars: infant, 90; day, 105; sewing, 24; Sunday, 180 to 200 adults.

"The school continues to give us great pleasure. The adult Tambookie men attend twice a week, and come diligently to church on Sunday, when the place is well filled, and great silence and devotion are observed. But they understand little, and it appears sometimes as if I was addressing the rocks. Yet I ashamed of my "All the schools make satisfactory prodoubts. The Lord knows His own time, gress, and prove a great blessing to those and it is our duty to work while it is day, who attend. The exchange of tracts among and to beseech men to be reconciled to God. the families continues, with increasing The baptized Tambookies walk worthy of advantage. The poverty of the people their Christian profession, and show by abounded to the riches of their liberality, their quiet behavior, yet more than by in contributing to missions the sum of 547. their words, what spirit they are of." 2s. 3 1-4d. The Temperance society maintains a beneficial influence temptations are numerous, but most of the members remain steadfast to their engagements. In temporal things, the people are advancing the means used to induce them to build decent cottages are not without success the making of salt has been a profitable branch of industry. In the late Caffre war, 100 Hottentots formed the contingent furnished by Bethelsdorp for the national defence: the patriotic feeling, and the subordination to their commanders manifested by these men, were acknowledged, in gratifying terms.'

Dec. 1834.

The following is a Summary of the Missions, &c. under the charge of the United Brethren, at the close of 1834:

Missions. Date of est. Sta.

Miss'ries. Commu.

336

85 13,410

Greenland 1733

4

25

840

Labrador 1770

4

31

N. A. Indians 1734

2

8

West Indies 1732

27

111

S. Africa 1736 renewed 1792 Total, 5

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Cape Town. John Philip, D. D. Superintendent. Population, in 1831-2, 18,586.

Bosjeveld. 40 miles north of Cape Town-one missionary.

Port Elizabeth. Out-station to Bethelsdorp-one missionary.-Population 1100communicants, 41-scholars day, 162; sewing, 30; Sunday, 135 to 150. Uitenhage. Out-station to Bethelsdorpone missionary.-Communicants, among whom are Hottentots, Caffres,

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Bechuanas, and Mahomedans.-Scholars | Hottentots, upwards of 3000 in number, day, 100; Sunday, 70; who make good progress.

The change which has taken place in the views, feelings and practice of the Mahomedan converts, is peculiarly striking. Of the present candidates for baptism, there are six most anxious inquirers who were Mahomedans respecting these, the missionary has stated "When I ask them what they thought of becoming Christians, they say, We hear, from your preaching, that Christ is the only Prophet-that He is the only Savior-that He died on the cross for sinners: we are convinced that we are sinners, and that by His redemption and grace alone we can be saved.'"'

living in 50 or 60 locations or small hamlets over a considerable tract of country1829-one missionary, one assistant.

"The Sunday congregation continues large, and the thirst for the word of life unabated: many come from a great distance, and often return, there is reason to believe, with joyful hearts. A larger place of worship, 80 feet by 40, was building.— Communicants, 300; many of whom are exemplary for their active piety-schools, 12; of which 11 are conducted by Hottentots: 4 of the schools are for infants ; scholars, 600 to 700-subscriptions, in the year, to Missions, 301.

"The work of grace in the hearts of the people manifests itself. During the past year, 100 adults have been baptized; mak

"There is a great awakening among the Mahomedans in this town; and it appears as if the dominion of error and sin were beginning to shake, preparatory to its falling the total of baptized, since the com

The priest does all he can to keep the
people in ignorance; but it is in vain: they
say to him, You have deceived us long
enough, but now we know better; we now
know that we can become happy by the
grace and merits of Jesus Christ.' One of
the Mahomedan converts is a young woman,
who, with her two young children, was
sent from Cape Town in order to be sold at
Uitenhage. She came to my church; and
she told me, with tears in her eyes, that
when she heard the preaching of Christ as
the only Redeemer of mankind, and that
we may be happy in Him by free grace,
without money and without price, she
thought within herself, "Why have I been
so foolish as to listen to my priest, who con-
tinually says,Bring, bring, bring money-
bring rice-bring fowls; yea, bring what
you have?'"
She continued hearing the
word of truth, till, being fully convinced
of her sins, she came to me the first time
to speak about the state of her mind. I
was astonished; and, finding that her ideas
of the word of God, the love of Christ to
sinners, and His sufferings for them, were
so clear, she was baptized."

mencement of the station, 189. There were, at the close of the year, above 60 persons under serious concern for their souls, of whose sincerity the missionary has reason to hope most favorably it is pleasing to notice among them persons at every stage of human life, from the youth of 12 years of age to the man of hoary hairs. The Directors quote the following statements of a letter, written by J. H. Tredgold, Esq., a highly respectable resident at the Cape, who recently visited the Settle

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Settlement, the Kat River, as many par"With respect to that highly interesting relative to the progress of its inhabitants in ticulars have been recently published religion and civilization, and its general increase in prosperity, I shall confine myself to the mention of a few particulars relating to one of its locations, called the Bushman Location, or Bruceton, as illustrative of the powerful effect of religion in subduing and changing the savage character.

"The settlers on this location, which I consisted, I believe, of twelve or fifteen understood was tried as an experiment, families of the most uncivilized Bushmen Theopolis. 550 miles east of Cape who were to be met with in the colony. Town-two missionaries, one assistant.On their first coming, they were in miseraInhabitants, 382-communicants, 97; ble circumstances of destitution and ignoamong whom there is much real piety.rance, and lived, for some time, on bulbs Scholars infant, 95; day, 70. Previous and roots of trees, and other produce of the to the recent Caffre war, the people pos- forest, or occasionally on the flesh of sessed 879 heads of cattle, 17 horses, 9 quaggas which they killed in hunting. waggons, and 13 ploughs. About three years ago, Mr. Read comGrahamstown. In Albany District-menced visiting them periodically, holding one missionary. Sunday congregation, 350 to 400-scholars: Sunday, 305; of whom 48 are children of Europeans; gratuitous teachers, 25; of whom 16 were formerly scholars in the same school; average attendance, 200 to 250.

Graaf Reinet. One missionary. Communicants, 24.

Kat River. A settlement in the Neutral Territory, consisting chiefly of liberated

his services under a native tree, which was pointed out to us; but so averse did the people seem to his visits, that he was a long time listened to with careless indifference, and often received by them with forbidding and suspicious looks. Indeed, notwithstanding the known zeal of this worthy missionary, so disheartening and hopeless did the work appear to him, that he was on the point of abandoning the

"I have often heard it stated, and some- "I cannot conclude these observations times, even, advanced by those who style without bearing my testimony to the indethemselves the Friends of Missions, that fatigable zeal with which those noble-mindthe accounts which we read in Missionary ed and devoted men, the missionaries, perReports are frequently exaggerated state- severe in the arduous course of their duties; ments, and often at variance with facts. and I have witnessed and admired the paBut, after visiting the whole line of the tient fortitude with which their amiable Stations of the Society, commencing with partners in life, particularly those beyond Zuurbraak and terminating at the Buffalo the pale of civilization, have borne privaRiver, I can safely assert, that every ac- tions, difficulties, and inconveniences of no count which I have read hitherto has fallen | common character, and of which their short of conveying to my mind any thing | Christian sisters, who live in the enjoyment like an adequate idea of the great work of civilized life, can scarcely form a corwhich is going on at these Institutions. rect idea." Miss. Reg. Abr'g'd.

Donations from July 15 to August 15, 1836.

Society Ridge, Mi.,-Union Ch., Fem. Miss. Soc., Mrs. M. Hopkins,
treas., for Burman Mission,

West Dedham, Ms.,-several individ., for Bur. bible, per Rev. T. Driver,
Brooklyn, N. Y., Fem. Juv. Bur. School Soc., to ed. Karen girl, named
Sarah Boardman, per Mrs. S. Crosby,

Savannah, Ga.,-child. of Bap. S. S. Miss. So., per T. Dowell, Esq., treas.,
Hallowell, Me.,-a respected friend, half of which is for the Bur. bible, 20,
Oxford, Me., Bap. For. Miss. Soc. Aux. &c., Dea. G. Hathaway, treas., 36,
per Rev. Chas. Miller,

Shelburne Falls, Ms.,-Judson Plain Dress Soc., saved by economy in
dress, for Bur. Miss., Miss Nancy Root, sec.,
11,25
individuals, for For. Miss., (with a like sum for H. Miss.,) 6,35
per Mr. H. Benton,

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Wetumpka, Ala.,—a lady, for herself and two daughters, for Bur. bible,
per Rev. R. W. Cushman,
Beaufort, S. C., Bap. Fem. pr. meeting, for printing the bible for the hea-
then,
per. Rev. B. Manly,
London,-Legacy of the late Mrs. Hannah More, to the Burman Mission,
being the proceeds of £200 stg. in 3 per cent. stock,—per Thomas Allen,
Esq., one of the Executors to the estate of the late Joseph Butterworth,
Esq., £175, 3s. 5d.

Boston," a mite from a seaman who loves both the missionary and the
cause," per Rev. Mr. Lord,

66 "a friend to Missions,"

Hancock, Me., Aux. For. Miss. Soc., Rev. J. Gilpatrick, treas., per
Dr. Babcock,

Detroit, Michigan, monthly concert, for Bur. Miss., per Rev. R. Turnbull,
Onondaga, N. Y., 2d Bap. ch. and soc., for Bur. bible, per Rev. W. W.
Powers,

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Virginia For. Miss. Soc., for Bur. bible, per Rev. S. Cornelius, ag't B'd,
Richmond Jun'r Fem. Working Soc. of S. S. 2d Bap. ch., for
sup. of school in Siam under the care of Mrs. F. G. Davenport, per J.
C. Crane, Esq.,

Hallowell, Me., Mr. Francis Day, for Bur. bib., per Rev. J. H. Ingraham,
West Boylston, Ms.,-Juv. Benev. Soc., for Bur. Miss., per Miss White,
Washington, D. C.,-Miss M. S. W. Quincy," To aid in the Shan trans,
lation of the blessed bible,"

Centreville, Ohio, collected by Rev. R. Missildine at mon. con., per Mr.
J. Putnam,

Boston,-in anonymous letter, for Bur. Mission, (with $5 for Ed. Soc.,)
Boston,-fem. friend, per Dr. Bolles,

Virginia and For. Bible Soc., for Bur. bib., per J. H. Temple, Esq., treas.,
Roston, a lady, per S. P.,

Clothing, Stationary, &c.

Shaftsbury, Vt., a chest for Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of the Shan Mission,

Of which, Ladies of the 3d church contributed 30,70

per. Rev. W. Walker,

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Charlestown, Ms., Juv. Miss. Soc., pupils S. S. 1st Bap. Soc., a box of bed-clothing for Indian stations at the west, per. M. F. Murray, sec., 20,00

H. LINCOLN, Treasurer.