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Gives his personal view of the situation in the Cape Colony and the mission stations so that he can advise Thomas how to act in relation to his sons [Manning and Thomas Prentice] in deciding whether they should go to Africa; advises against sending them to the Cape Colony or to "Caffreland", but rather to consider the Interior; refers to specific towns and villages in the Colony, including Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Graaf Reinet, Colesberg, which have clergymen and missionaries who have been "detained" by resident English populations and thus prevented from reaching the "real heathen" as intended by the Directors [of the missionary society]; comments on the South African colonists and their lack of "liberality" in contrast to the English population in India; comments on the disagreements between the missionaries of Griqua Town and Kuruman over "what they deem encroachments on each others spheres", the expansion of Griqua Town mission "by means of native teachers" and his wish that Kuruman would do the same; refers to a proposed "reinforcement" of missionaries to Kuruman and what they will do, insisting that they must move forward into the Interior rather than remaining amongst the Bechuana and Kuruman people and that they must extend their sphere of influence by means of "native teachers"; recommends that Thomas consider the Interior as a field of work; describes landscape around Kuruman; describes the purpose of his journey to plant a teacher with the Bakwain [baKwena].
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