Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-09-27
Aug. IA, 1907.

while selling one article. The low
buildings seemed quite odd, too
We saw few buildings over two
stories. Still, Southampton is a
a beautiful place. They have
clean streets, many beautiful parks
and a common Of $40 acres. This
common is where Southampton
goes for her picnics, holidays and
evening walks.
We went there for some open
air meetings.
We visited the old wall about
the port, which have stood for Gen.
turtles. Saw some arrows sticking
in them, which were shot, in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Miss Alice Long joined us here,
making our party ten. We lett
Southampton on the twenty fifth
of May.
1t was just lovely sailing all the
way from, England, but was effec-
ted some little by the climate
within the sropics. | could not
wonder that part Of this Western
shore is called the white man $
graveyard, when the climate effec-
ted us so far from the sea.
Our most beautiful sight was
The Island Of Teneritfe, where the
astronomers Of Great Britain used
to ascend above the clouds for
their astronomical study. About
4P. M. May the 30th the peak
came into view. AS we drew near
err we could see the clouds about
the mountain. The peak is 10000
Fl. above the sea.leyel. The whole
Of the island seemed to be one rug.
ged mountain, but about 1870 we
pulled into lovely little city,
called Teneriffe. Those who went
ashore said it seemed fully up to
date along all lines. 1t is under
Spanish control.
Up to this time we had seen very
few fish. but now they began to
swarm about US. The porpoises
and the portuguese men of war were
the most numerous. We saw one
whale near the equator and one
just before landing at port Eliza
beth.
We landed at Cape Town the
10th. One of our first impressions
was, "South Africa is not without
religious teaching. In about a
two hours walk about the place we
passed The Church Of England
meeting house, a PRESBYTERIAN
church, Wesleyan church, two
German churches, a Jewish syna-
gogue, Roman Catholic church,
a Salvation Army Hall and quite a
humber of Mohammaden syna-
gogues.
Cape Town has some beautiful
buildings. One Of the most beau
tiful is the New York Life Insur-
ance building. We were told that
it was purely American. The work
all done by Americans. We passed
through the government square
which has some magnificent, beau
tiful buildings. This square con-
tains a vast variety of vegetation.
We were told that we could not see
a greater variety in travelling many
hundred miles up country.
The scarcity of deciduous trees
was the most noticeable thing to us.
We could scarcely realize it was
winter time, as nothing had win |
try appearance.
We landed at Port Elizabeth on
June 18th, just six weeks and one
day after | babe Highland adieu
We were taken to little missiona-
~ home five miles south of the city |
that day that we might spend the
first day in Africa together, but
ate in the afternoon came to our
native location five miles north OF
Port Elizabeth where | have been
since. We have a beautiful little
'our room cottage here and-a good
church building and school room
combined.
Sometimes there has been only
Mss Innisof, Of the Indiana Ho'i'
less Christian Conference, and my
elf here for days without seeing
mother white face, butt have new
II had one desire to be anywhere
Use.
We have day school of IS chill
lren and night school for men.
have never taught a brighter lot
# children, and The men make re-
narkable advancement in English.
We are making some advancement
n Kaffir, but they arelearning Eng
lsh faster than we are learning
Zaffir. We learn to read with little
tudy, as they use our alphabet and
oundmore than half the letters the
anne, but the composition is so far
ifferent that it will take much
tudy to master it.