SANDILE

Sandilli also told me that he had sent for another of his boys to bring him to me likewise---This boy is younger to the boy under the charge of the Bishop of Cape Town---Of him I wrote some time ago to the young people of Mr Croom's church---saying I would ask Sandilli to give him to me along with his half brother Bisset---He never gave me a decided answer---though I asked him more than once---until the day he told me he had sent for him. . . . I hope Sandilli will be led to see the unhappiness of his own condition---Mr Brownlie the Gaika Commissioner, had last month, in his place an interesting meeting with the Kaffirs---and the Fingoesunder his superintendence---Mr Brownlee had never before met them together---& he wished to give them common counsel---Sandilli was at the head of the Kaffirs---& reasonable advice was especially given him in reference to his public conduct---In concluding his speech, in which he thanked Mr Brownlie for all he had said---& had done for him---he thus addressed the meeting---speaking to his people about the trustfulness of the references that had been made regarding the necessity of changing their old ways & manner of life---'Down therefore all of you upon your Knees---pray---and be all converted'---he was serious at any rate for the time then present---.

-Tiyo Soga, "Letterbook: Emgwali Mission Station, 6 Feby 1860", in The Journal and Selected Writings of The Reverand Tiyo Soga, (ed.) Donovan Williams, A. A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1983.