others minded him; but he said no one was master; that the men never quarrel, but the women do; that they have no laws nor roles, and are all very happy together ; and that no one ever interferes with another. Old Glass does a great deal of extra work; he is schoolmaster to the children, and says many of his scholars can read the Bible “ quite pretty.” Leis alse chaplain,-buries and christens, and reads the service every Sunday, “all according to the Church of ingland, Sir.” They had only Blair's Sermons, which they have read every Sunday for the last ten years, ever since they have possessed them; but the old man said, very innocently, “ We do not understand them yet: I suppose they are too good for us.” Of course they were well supplied with books before they left us, They make all theirewn clethes out of canvas given them by the whalers; they sew them with twine, and they looked very respectable: but they said it was not so easy to dress the ladies, and they were exceedingly glad of any old clothes we could rummage out for them. ‘Their shoes are mae of seal-skin: they pnt their feet into the skin while it is moist, and let it dry to the shape of the foot, and it turns out a very tidy shae.
After they had colleeted all the “incoherent odds aud ends” we could find for them, and finished their supper, they went off again in a beautiful little boat given them by a whaler. The Skipper gave the Governor a salute of one gun, two blue-lights, and two rockets; and they treated us with a bonfire from the shore. I was sorry for several things I had left behind, which would have been treasures to Mys, Glass, especially worsted for knitting.
‘These South Seas are much worse than the Bay of Biscay; nothing but rolling by day and by night: but we are all looking forward to a week at the Cape to set us right again.
October 19th. Care or Goop Horr,—We landed here on Sunday morning, and were very happy to find ourselves on shore. We are to stay a week, and have hired horses, and mean to ride every day.
Cape Town is just like the Duteh toy-towns—straight streets; white houses of only two stories, with flat roofs; trees in almost every street, The place is filled with English, Dutch, Wotten-tots, Malays, Parsees, fleas, and bugs; the last appear to be the
