LETTERS FROM HOME. 



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with the narrative it will be proper here to give 

 quotations from some ot the letters written during 

 his present stay at Bamangwato. Five days after 

 his arrival he writes to one of his brothers : — 



"Bamangwato, April 16th, 1874. 

 "At last I have your and the Mater's letters, 



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 



