15 MARCH 1946, Page 14

SIR,—The letter from Mr. Thompson of Kuruman concerning my review

of Robert Moffat's Journals, Vol. I, is a chastening corrective For the blunders in the dates of the early record I am wholly to blame, having failed to note the length of the interval covered by Moffat's training for the mission. The other slips are to be explained by the extreme difficulty of proof-correcting under present conditions. I do not add an " s " to Bechuana, and I have known of Kuruman and its wonderful achievement