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a poor wretch looking at eternity & planning to launch into [indecipherable] unknown
We asked him a few questions which were answered with difficulty so deeply eeated was the disease. At last he cried with a deep & [indecipherable] cry which resounded on the walls and "died but lived (we hope) to God" - "God be merciful to me a vile miserable sinner" - We saw the ravages of sin had made our hearts sink within us our tears flowed and we left the place with feelings not to to be [indecipherable]. On the following day I was turning in to see my old schoolfellow again but he was no more. He had gone to the house appointed for all leaving & was interred in the Old Church Yard - in the same day his former mistress came down to take him if possible [indecipherable] home to Parramatta

X whose mother was shot by the whites