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knows news, but when I look at it I see nothing, 
because the Missionary knows things by the 
letter, I ask him what they are." 
" Does Mateebe know how news comes in the 
letter?" ' 
" I do not know, but the people who can write 
know it." 
" I expected that Mateebe, before now, would 
have been able himself to write a letter to the far 
land?" 
" If I wish to write, I may come to the Mis- 
sionary, and he will write for me. I had called 
on the Missionary when he was writing, but he 
never put the pen into my hand." He expressed 
this with a laugh. 
** Have not all been publickly invited to come 
and learn to write ?" 
Yes, the ask is there ! but me they have not 
asked." 
Here I was told that there was no Bootshuana 
word for soul or spirit, but heart or breath, and 
that it was still uncertain whether the people 
understood that they had souls. The interpreter, 
