Narok,
Masai Reserve, Kenya
East
Africa. Jan. 17, 1935.
My
dear Aunts:
I
have no letters from you to answer but Mulungit has written to
Carrie
Offerle so I must send it on. I hope you can make it out.
Cora
had wanted some of his hair to show the school children so he
said I
should put some in your letter too. And then a lion was killed
by
eating poison & he got some claws to send to you too.
‘Twas
not a very large one - not full grown. So with all that, this
letter
will be pretty full.
Miss
Norton is with us. She is quite an old worker; came out in
1907 &
is older than I am in years, I mean. She is quite white. She
is
sitting here at the table knitting & reading at the same
time. John has gone to bed - he is not feeling well today. Has
trouble in
his side. We will see the Dr. when we go to Conf. next week. I
only
hope we wont have to go before next week.
This
is post day & so there were things to pay at Narok &
petrol
to get we drove over & tho we waited til after 5 P.M. the
lorry
hadn’t yet come so we came home.
The
next day after I sent your last letter - in the eve John &
I were
sitting here reading & writing when he heard a lion
grunting near
by. We hadn’t heard lions for a long time. He said
this
one was here on the hill so we looked out of the door & it
passed
by the house - so near we saw it in the light that shown from
the
window 40 to 50 ft. from us. It was around all night - &
even
after the sun was up next morning it was just in the valley by
the
river. A dead one was found not very far away & we got a
picture
& the skin. a few days later another dead one was found.
These
both had picked up some poisoned meat that was put out for
hyenas. They were young ones but very large. I’ll send you a
picture. There were others of the family that staid around for
a week or more
so that the people who had cattle had to watch all night. Now
they
seem to have left again & we aren’t sorry.
My
how pleased Mulungit was for the Testament. He can read it so
easily
now. he has glasses too.
We
had Raymonds letter last Thurs. telling of his wedding and
Sun. we
had a long one from Claudon. We do hope we will hear soon from
Raymond as to when they are coming & then we will write
Claudon
to come on down here & we will all be together. Wont we
have a
jolly time? We are so eager to meet Sara. You will, no doubt,
meet
her before we do. I hope they can stop to see you all.
We
go to Kijabe next week to stay a week. Conference begins Tues.
and
lasts over the next Sun. & we will go to Nairobi on Mon.
&
hope we can come back here Tues.
John
is getting on nicely with the translation work and he wants to
stick
at it til Raymond comes & hopes by then to have the Old
Testament
all typed. he feels then he has earned a vacation & we
expect to
have it.
We
had a nice quiet Xmas. Picnic lunch with Mr Clarke. I prepared
the
lunch but he took us out in his new car. Then an evening of
lovely
phonograph music down there. We had early morning meeting -
& I
took a picture of the crowd.
Now
we are well started in the year & God alone knows how it
will
close. but we do anticipate a good time when Raymonds come.
Thanks
much for sending the Testament to M. I think he is in better
spiritual condition than for some time.
Love
to you all & happy year all 1935.
Flo.
[side
margin] Jan. 22. Got to Kijabe yesterday but drove the last 25
mi.
with a flat tire.
[written
in top margin] opium - Heroin - morphine - cocaine.
[Scan
of a tuft of Mulungit’s hair included.]
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