THE following letter was received on the 20th August:—
C/o NATIVE COMMISSIONER, BEMBESI,
MATABELELAND,
SOUTH AFRICA, 26th July, 1907.
MY DEAR MR. SINCLAIR,
I am in receipt of your letter of the 7th of June, and was very glad to hear from you. I am glad to inform you that I am still getting the Magazine regularly every month, and read it with great interest, and I thank you very much for sending it to me.
I am sorry to say that Wali has not been keeping well at all, and has had to return to his home for good. When he was home last he came with another boy named Nkobi, and seemed better for a time, but he was soon laid up again. When he felt a little better I sent him to the doctor at Bulawayo. The doctor examined him and gave him two bottles of medicine—the one was for coughing, and the other bottle was for his stomach. He said he had a very weak stomach, and should be given nothing but milk food for a time. I fear he has consumption also, although the doctor did not say so. When he returned from Bulawayo he said he thought that he had better go home as he is often laid up, and so I consented. We were all very sorry to lose him. But Nkobi is still with us; also the Chief’s son, Ndabana, and the two little boys and little girl from Mashonaland. The boys’ names are Babane Yafele and Boyizi Yafele, and the little girl, Tandiwe Yafele. I have also a little Zulu boy named Memeni, who is about seven years of age. I have now given away about ten Bibles and Testaments to those who can read them.
I was so very glad to see the other day in a native newspaper from the Cape Colony Shorter Catechisms in Kaffir advertised for sale. I never knew before that there were Shorter Catechisms printed in Kaffir. They will be very useful to me, indeed, for the children, and I intend getting some as soon as I am able. Amongst some of the men who have joined our Church, one is an elder and another is a deacon. . . .
Kindly remember me to all the friends.—Yours sincerely,
JOHN B. RADASI.
P.S.—My wife’s name is Annie Hlazo; she belongs to the same people as I do, Fingoe.
J. B. R.