The Moffats . ppointed over the 257 TBE M OFF ATS death of Peclo, their first-born, and alienated fromthe region where he had died. ^iile the Moffatswere absent in England, Mothibi had come toKuruman to acknowledge at last, after allhis years of vacillation and indifference, hisallegiance to the Christians God. It was a touch-ing scene when Mothibi, with Mahuto, his wife,alighted from their ox-cart and proceeded to theMoffats house, to express w^ith rapture theirthanks to God for having brought the mission-aries safely home. Meanwhile the new recruits, William Ross andDavid Livingstone, prospe
The Moffats . ppointed over the 257 TBE M OFF ATS death of Peclo, their first-born, and alienated fromthe region where he had died. ^iile the Moffatswere absent in England, Mothibi had come toKuruman to acknowledge at last, after allhis years of vacillation and indifference, hisallegiance to the Christians God. It was a touch-ing scene when Mothibi, with Mahuto, his wife,alighted from their ox-cart and proceeded to theMoffats house, to express w^ith rapture theirthanks to God for having brought the mission-aries safely home. Meanwhile the new recruits, William Ross andDavid Livingstone, prospected for new sites inthe regions beyond, Mr. and Mrs. Ross choosingthe village of Taung, one hundred miles to theeast, and Dr. Livingstone the Bakhatla tribe, twohundred miles to the north. There in the forestprimeval he built his hut in a valley called Ma-botsa, a marriage feast. 258 CHAPTER XVITHE ALMOND-TREE OF KURUMAN I shall not swerve a hairbreadth from my work while life isspared.—David THERE . . MAKY PLEDGED HIM HEB LOVE AND LOYALTY WHILE LIFE SHOULD LAST.
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