LETTERS FROM HOME. 
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with the narrative, it will be proper here to give 
quotations from some of the letters written during 
his present stay at Bamangwato. Five days after 
his arrival he writes to one of his brothers : — 
"Bamangwato, April i6ih, 1874. 
" At last I have your and the Mater's letters. 
y^-r 
CHURCH AND MISSION STATION, SHOSHONG, BAMANGWATO. 
dated September 2 2d, and containing the first news 
I have had from home since I left Pietermaritz- 
burg. When I arrived here and found no letters 
I did not know what to think. Mr. Mackenzie, 
the missionary, and his assistant, Mr. Hepburn, 
were both absent, having gone — as well as Mr. 
Thomson, the Matabele missionary — to a meeting at 
Kuruman. I had asked Mackenzie to keep letters 
for me at his own house, and requested Hathorn to 
