—39… also, the recommendations themselves must be followed absolutely. Truly, always, at the beginning of November. From the English colonial minister, Herzog von Newcastle, two recommendations to the English administrators of Cape Town and Port Natal, and then the message that identical recommendations should also be sent to the English consul on the eastern coast, in which all authorities are required to provide all possible supplies to this Christian enterprise as if it were the missionaries’ home. But as these letters arrived, the task force was already secured By Kurhafen and there I was sitting with the letters here. It seemed like a damage. But now I want to show that this damage is a blessing. I wrote to our nail in Hamburg, it should be sent to them immediately by post to Cape Town, so that our missionaries may want to deliver them there. Nagel knew the consulate in Cape Town, who is called Kurhafen, a Juritz, a member of the Lutheran community and a warm friend and commissioner of the mission, who sent him now the English recommendations and asked him to hand them over to the missionaries upon their arrival. From this Juritz, a letter dated 23rd December of last year returned to me, which I’m here separating, so far as it pertains to the matter, so that every reader can see the words of the man. “Yesterday,” he writes, “the postal steamer Jndiania arrived and brought me a dear letter and accompanying envelope for the missionaries and the captain of the task force, which I felt great joy, because several of us were just discussing with Pastor Parisius (this man is pastor in the Lutheran community in Cape Town) recently while speaking about Hermannsburg and the blessed missions work there. I will ensure the brothers, when they come, that they will welcome them as brothers of our community, so that they will be welcome to us.” I will ensure them at the stationmaster and the others here –

—39… also, the recommendations themselves must be followed absolutely. Truly, always, at the beginning of November. From the English colonial minister, Herzog von Newcastle, two recommendations to the English administrators of Cape Town and Port Natal, and then the message that identical recommendations should also be sent to the English consul on the eastern coast, in which all authorities are required to provide all possible supplies to this Christian enterprise as if it were the missionaries’ home. But as these letters arrived, the task force was already secured By Kurhafen and there I was sitting with the letters here. It seemed like a damage. But now I want to show that this damage is a blessing. I wrote to our nail in Hamburg, it should be sent to them immediately by post to Cape Town, so that our missionaries may want to deliver them there. Nagel knew the consulate in Cape Town, who is called Kurhafen, a Juritz, a member of the Lutheran community and a warm friend and commissioner of the mission, who sent him now the English recommendations and asked him to hand them over to the missionaries upon their arrival. From this Juritz, a letter dated 23rd December of last year returned to me, which I’m here separating, so far as it pertains to the matter, so that every reader can see the words of the man. “Yesterday,” he writes, “the postal steamer Jndiania arrived and brought me a dear letter and accompanying envelope for the missionaries and the captain of the task force, which I felt great joy, because several of us were just discussing with Pastor Parisius (this man is pastor in the Lutheran community in Cape Town) recently while speaking about Hermannsburg and the blessed missions work there. I will ensure the brothers, when they come, that they will welcome them as brothers of our community, so that they will be welcome to us.” I will ensure them at the stationmaster and the others here –