Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa .. . rough the atonement of few days subsequent to this declaration, feelingthat the harbingers of death had arrived, she calledher husband and friends, and addressed them inlanguage affecting and arousing, exhorting them tobelieve in the words of Jehovah, to flee for reliigeto Jesus as the only Saviour. I am going to was startling language from the lips of a Moch-uaua. Some listened with amazement, and otherswept. Weep not, she said, because I am goingto leave you, but weep for your sins and weep foryour souls. With me all is w
Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa .. . rough the atonement of few days subsequent to this declaration, feelingthat the harbingers of death had arrived, she calledher husband and friends, and addressed them inlanguage affecting and arousing, exhorting them tobelieve in the words of Jehovah, to flee for reliigeto Jesus as the only Saviour. I am going to was startling language from the lips of a Moch-uaua. Some listened with amazement, and otherswept. Weep not, she said, because I am goingto leave you, but weep for your sins and weep foryour souls. With me all is well, for do not supposethat I die like a beast, or that I shall sleep for everin the grave. No! Jesus has died for my sins; hehas said he will save me, I am going to be withhim. Shortly after bearing this testimony, shewho a few months before, according to her own lan-guage, was as ignorant as the cattle in the fold, now AMBASSADORS FROM MOSELEKATSE.—THEIR ASTONISHMENT. 133 left the world with the full assurance of an eternallife beyond the WOODEN SPOONS MANirFACTURED BY THE BECHUANAS. CHAPTER XXIX. jNIoselekatses ambassadors—Their astonishment—Danger at-tending their return—The Author accompanies them—Tlieirreception by Maliivra—A lion attacks the oxen—Arrive attlie Baliurutsi—Country and game—The inhabited tree —Singular expedient—The lions and the oven—An urgentappeal—Indications of former prosperity—Traces of greatindustry—The ravages of war—An interesting recital—Heavy rains—Meet a hunting party—Savage pomp—Mose-lekatse afraid—Warriors described—A grand ball. In the latter end of the year 1829, two tradersjourneyed into the interior for the purpose of shoot-ing elephants, and to barter. Hearing at the Ba-hurutsi that a tribe possessing much cattle lived atsome distance eastward, they proceeded thither, andwere received in a friendly manner by Moselekatse,*the king of that division of Zoolus called AbakaZoolus, or more gen
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