Departure. Voyage to the Cape. Cape Town. Life in the Cape Colony

THE details of a missionary&s;s life in foreign lands cannot always aboulld with incidents of romantic in.. terest, or of thrilling adventure. His aim respects neither scientific research nor mercantile profit; he desires, with the great apostle of the Gentiles, to know nothing among men save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Still, unless he pass along strangely unobservant of the scenes which meet his eye, or of his fellow men with whom he converses, there will be much in his simple narrative to interest· those who would form an idea of missionary life as in reality it is. For such the following pages are written, based on journals penned at the time, and reproducing the impressions which were then made upon the writer&s;s mind.