What a mighty effect would be produced if one of the seventy disciples were among them to heal them all by a word! The Bechuanas resort to the Bushmen and the poor people that live in the desert for doctors.

The fact of my dealing in that line a little is so strange, and now my fame has spread far and wide.

But if one of Christ's apostles were here, I should think he would be very soon known all over the continent to Abyssinia.

The great deal of work I have had to do in attending to the sick has proved beneficial to me, for they make me speak the language perpetually, and if I were inclined to be lazy in learning it, they would prevent me indulging the propensity.

And they are excellent patients, too, besides.