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in his important calling. Together with a noble and 

 athletic frame, he possesses a face on which forbear- 

 ance and Christian charity are very plainly written, and 

 his mental and bodily attainments are great. Minis- 

 ter, gardener, blacksmith, gunsmith, mason, carpenter, 

 glazier — every hour of the day fmds this worthy pastor 

 engaged in some useful employment — setting, by his 

 own exemplary piety and industrious habits, a good ex- 

 ample to others to go and do likewise. 



Mr. Moffat informed me that a missionary named 

 Dr. Livingstone, who was married to his eldest daugh- 

 ter, had lately established a missionary station among 

 the Bakatlas at Mabotsa, in the vale of Bakatla, about 

 fourteen days' journey to the northeast. Thither he 

 recommended me at once to proceed, as few of the 

 larger varieties of game could now be expected to be 

 found to the southward of Bakatla. He represented 

 to me that my falling in with elephants, even through- 

 out the vast forests in the country immediately beyond 

 Bakatla, was very uncertain, and recommended me, if 

 I was determined to have good elephant-shooting, to 

 endeavor to push on to the remote and endless forests 

 beyond the mountains of Bamangwato, in the territory 

 of Sicomy, the great and paramount chief of the extens- 

 ive country of the Bamangwato. There would also be 

 a probability of obtaining ivory in barter from Sicomy, 

 he being reported to possess large quantities of that 

 valuable commodity. By Mr. Moffat's assistance I en- 

 gaged a Bechuana in the capacity of interpreter in the 

 Dutch and Sichuana languages. From Mr. Hume I 

 purchased a supply of wheat; and on the following day 

 I set all my people to work on a mill of Mr. Moffat's 

 to reduce this wheat to flour. 



On the 15th I took leave of my friends at Kuruman, 



