her influence.
Therefore, Andrew, read your Bible daily for guidance; go daily to the
throne of grace for enlightenment and direction, that you may keep your
high principles bright and ever fit for action. Do not trust your
feelings; they may mislead you. Do not trust the world or your
companions; they may prove faithless monitors or guides. Do not trust,
as people say, `manfully to yourself.' Self often proves treacherous."
More to the same effect my father said. I have given briefly his
observations. I did my best to carry out his counsel; and through it
gained the calmness and courage with which I encountered difficulties
and dangers which would otherwise have appalled and overwhelmed me. I
was never addicted to talking to my companions of myself, or my
principles and feelings; and I sometimes blame myself for not
endeavouring more perseveringly to inculcate on others those principles
which I knew to be so true and valuable. I now mention the subject,
because I can say on paper what my lips have often refused to utter.
But I have said enough about myself.

We had several other passengers on board, who, notwithstanding the risks
which they knew must be encountered on the African coast, had, for the
sake of seeing the country, come on board with the intention of
proceeding on to Cape Town, to which, as I said, we were ultimately
bound. I will mention first Captain Stanley Hyslop, a near relation of
mine, a nephew of my mother's. He was a military officer, and having
sold out of the service, was going to settle in the Cape Colony, where
his parents already were. He was accompanied by two younger brothers.
David was one of the nicest fellows I ever met. He had been educated as
a surgeon, and purposed practising in the country. The youngest,
Leonard, or Leo, as we always called him, was an amusing little chap,
always thinking funny things and saying them, and yet there was a
simplicity about him which was very attractive. He had been sent to
school in England, but being considered somewhat delicate--not,
certainly, that he looked so--it was recommended that he should return
to breathe his native air at the Cape. David was also, I should say, an
enthusiastic naturalist, and the hope of increasing his knowledge at the
places we might visit, had, besides his regard for me, induced him to
take his passage on board the _Osprey_, just as his brother expected to
get a few days sporting while the brig remained at a