CHAPTER XXXIII

Summary

The Tract Society having kindly supplied us with sixteen reams of paper, Mr. Edwards had, during my absence, printed several tracts in the language, translated by himself and Mr. Lemue. I had, on my journey, translated the Assembly's Catechism, and an additional portion of the Scripture Lessons; these also were put to the press, while the work of conversion was steadily advancing among the people, and the demand for books rapidly on the increase. Having, from the troublous state of the interior, failed in a former attempt to procure timber from the Bahurutsi, we availed ourselves of the present tranquillity, and Messrs. Hamilton and Edwards started with men, and all the wagons, for that purpose; obtained the timber with great labour, and what was a no less arduous task, brought it a distance of two hundred miles in ox wagons. As they returned they met with the Expedition at Mosega. When Dr. Smith arrived at the Kuruman, he found Mrs. M. in such a debilitated state, that he considered it necessary for her to avoid the summer heat, by visiting the coast for a few months. The printing of the Scripture Lessons had been greatly retarded from the want of paper, sickness in the mission families, and the late journeys; she was as reluctant as I could be that it should be longer delayed, and therefore cheerfully undertook the journey without me, and was absent seven months.