kept the Sabbath in that savage land they had done some
good by the example; for, as Swinton truly observed--

"The missionaries come into the land to spread the gospel of Christ;
they tell the natives that such is the religion and belief of the white
men, and that such are the doctrines which are inculcated. Now white men
come here as traders, or are occasionally seen here as travelers; and if
the natives find, as they have found, that these white men, stated by
the missionaries to hold the same belief, not only show no evidence of
their belief, but are guilty of sins expressly forbidden by the religion
preached, is not the work of the missionary nearly destroyed?

"I have often thought that the behavior of the Dutch boors toward the
natives must have had such an effect; indeed, I may say that the colony
has been founded upon very opposite principles to those of 'doing unto
others as you would they should do unto you.' I believe that there never
yet was an intercourse between Christians nominal and savages, in any
portion of the globe, but that the savages have with great justice
thrown in the Christians' teeth, that they preached one thing but did
another. Unfortunately the taunt is but too true. Even those who had
left their country for religious persecution have erred in the same way.
The conduct of the Puritans who landed at Salem was as barbarous toward
the Indians as that of Pizarro and his followers toward the Mexicans. In
either case the poor aborigines were hunted to death."

On Monday they started at daylight, and proceeded on the journey; but
they made little progress, on account of the difficulty of traveling
with the wagons in a country consisting of alternate precipices and
ravines, without any roads. The second day proved to be one of greater
difficulty; they were obliged to cut down trees, fill up holes, remove
large pieces of rock, and with every precaution the wagons were often
out of order, and they were obliged to halt for repairs.

At night they were about ten miles from the Umtata River, and it was
doubtful, from the accounts received from the natives of the country, if
they would be able to go further with the wagons than to its bank. But
in the evening, news was brought that the Amaquibi, the nation of
warriors which were governed by Quetoo, and which had come from the
north, had been attacked by two of the native tribes, aided by some
white men with guns; that the white men had all been destr