Excerpt from Twenty Years in Khama's Country: And Pioneering Among the Batauana of Lake Ngami On one of the first days of the year 1894 a cable message flashed from England's frost-bound shores, to these lying in the rich glow of midsummer radiance, the unexpected tidings that the Rev. J. D. Hepburn "was not," for God had taken him. Henceforth, to our earth-holden ears, the living voice of "Khama's friend" is for ever silenced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.