Part 118

+Bis dahin empfehle ich mich Ihnen hochachtend und ergebenst.+

+Kommandierender der.+

+zur.+

= Perhaps is my name unknown to you.

I — that = that it is I, who.

+auf´finden+, of which use the Perfect.

Section 148.

ANSWER TO THE PRECEDING LETTER.

English Factory, Boma, 6th August 1877, 6.30 A.M.

H. M. Stanley, Esq.

Dear Sir,

Your welcome letter came to hand yesterday, at 7 P.M. As soon as its contents were understood, we arranged to despatch to you such articles as you requested, as much as our stock on hand would permit, and other things that we deemed would be suitable in that locality. You will see that we send fifty pieces of cloth, each twenty-four yards long, and some sacks containing sundries for yourself; several sacks of rice, potatoes, a few bundles of fish, a bundle of tobacco, and one demijohn of rum. The carriers are all paid, so that you need not trouble yourself about them. That is all we need say about business. We are exceedingly sorry to hear that you have arrived there in such (+so+) piteous condition, but we send our warmest congratulations to you, and hope that you will soon arrive in Boma. (This place is called Boma by us, though on the map it is Embomma.) Again hoping that you will soon arrive, and that you are not suffering in health,

Believe us to remain,

Your sincere friends,

HATTON & COOKSON.

(Signed) A. DA MOTTA VEIGA. J. W. HARRISON.

+auf+, with Acc.; A.M. +morgens+; P.M. +abends+.—This letter and the accompanying supplies were received by Mr. Stanley in the morning of the 6th of August, two days after he despatched his letter to Boma. Messrs. A. Da Motta Veiga and J. W. Harrison were the managers of a factory belonging to Messrs. Hatton & Cookson of Liverpool.

came to hand = we have ... received.

As — locality = As soon as we had understood the contents of the same (to agree with letter), we (App. § 14) made arrangements (+Anstalten treffen+) to send you the asked for (+erbeten+) articles, as far as (+so weit+) our stock (+Warenlager+, n., or +Warenvorrat+, m.) would permit us (S. 51, N. 13), and add (supply noch) some other things of which we thought they might (= could) be useful to you there.

several, a few = some.

eine große Korbflasche.

Weiter haben wir nichts Geschäftliches zu sagen.

traurig.

Say ‘We call this place (Ort, m.) B’.

Say ‘it is called’.

Say ‘Again (noch einmal) expressing (S. 111, N. 6), the hope’.

zeichnen wir in aufrichtiger Freundschaft ergebenst.

Section 149.