PROSPECTS OF THE JOURNEY. 21 



kind and obliging in every way in Pietermaritz- 

 burg." 



On August 4th, the writer, still at Bamangwato, 

 adds : — " Willie, Buckley, and Gilchrist have gone 

 on. They started yesterday, and I intend to start 

 to-morrow, and shall overtake them. I believe the 

 prospects of the journey are very satisfactory. I 

 have had a long talk to-day with Mr. Mackenzie, 

 one of the missionaries here. He is a very nice 

 fellow, and knows all the country well, and has 

 written out for me a long list of the various watering- 

 places on the road to the Tati and on to Mosili- 

 katze's. He is the author of a book called ' Ten 

 Years North of the Orange River,' and is now 

 instructing some natives for missionary work — some 

 six or eight, I think, living in a sort of college. 

 The other missionary is a Mr. Hepburn, who 

 gave a little service in his house yesterday. I 

 am certain they will both do anything they can to 

 help us." 



Three years later, one of these missionaries, the 

 Rev. John Mackenzie, left Shoshong for Kuruman, 

 where suitable buildings had been erected by the 

 London Missionary Society for the embryo theo- 

 logical institution he was at the time of the events 

 now narrated conducting at the former place, and 

 which he has since carried on at Kuruman. 1 His 



1 Some time after the above was written — in the spring of 1884 

 — Mr. Mackenzie entered upon the responsible duties of Deputy 

 Commissioner for Bechuanaland, and though he has ceased to hold 

 the appointment, his name has become well-known and honoured by 

 all who have followed the recent course of events in that troubled 

 district. 



