sentences:  The country had been occasionally visited by a priest from Cape Colony.The first missionary who ministered to the Catholics of Natal was Fr Murphy, sent by Devereaux.Its area was about 35,371 square miles (90,550 km²), bounded on the north by Transvaal Colony and Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique); on the east by the Indian Ocean; on the south by Cape Colony (Pondoland); and on the west by Cape Colony (Griqualand East), Basutoland and Orange River Colony from which it is separated by the Drakensberg Mountains.