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Refers to Commandant Potgeiter who has gone to a tribunal [following a letter of January 1849 to the District Committee demanding David Livingstone's recall]; recalls details of the incident, including the resolution of the Bakwains [baKwena] to defend him against the Boers and to fight with them if necessary; staying at the house of Mr Alheit [Rev Christopher W. Alheit of the Rhenish Missionary Society, stationed at Skeitfontein since 1847]; account of journey so far; describes difficulties of travel with oxen and waggon; has not yet met with George [George Fleming, see letter 64]; busy with the Dictionary [Livingstone's Dictionary of the seTswana Language], which he writes whilst in the waggon; has been reading "the tour of the Bishop" ['A Journal of the Bishop's Visitation Tour through the Cape Colony, in 1850', by Robert Gray, Anglican Bishop of Cape Town since 1847] and comments on it; has heard nothing of the Caffre war since he left; speaks well of Mr Alheit and his doctrinal beliefs; loss of his horse "a great affliction"; refers to Malatsi [a baKwena tribesman who had accompanied Livingstone to Cape Town as a servant, who subsequently went to the MaKololo with the ill-fated missionary party under Hellmore (1859-1860), of which he was the first member to die].
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