IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions (IsiXIT) Digital Archive

NKOSI MHLELI,-Besinosuku olubalulekileyo ngolwesihlanu enyangeni le, kugalelek' i-Bishop yase Rini; kute ku- ba asinto yaziwayo kulomhlaba. zati ne- zinye imvaba make sokubona uncanye- Iweni wase Tshatshi. Lite i-Lawazana kwakutiwa kuza i-Bishop, lati yintonina ke i-Bishop? Kutiwe uyalungisa ukubuza yiyake woyibona into eyiyo.— ngoku bangayaziyo ngati vinto eza ile- ngalenga engenguye umntu,—-kute nge- ntsimbi yesibozo kwangena ebamnkeli besidlo esi Ngcwele, kupunyiwe ixeshana kwangenwa ngentsimbi yeshumi elinanye, pambi kwemini enkulu. Satetake esosicaka sika Somandla, amazwi abukali njengesirele esintlangoti mbini. Abafundisi ababeko ngo Rev. Cooper wase Ri- ni, umlungiseleli we Bishop, no Rev S W. Cox, umninimzi apa, no Rev II Maggs opete isikula sododana, ne Titshala zabe Sutu neza Maxosa no Mr. Stephen Mei. isibonda nomncedisi wabafundisi be Tshatshi nezinye, no Mr. A Bell. P. Eland, umlomo wo Bishop, ibe ngu Mr. Solomon Gawe, okaya belisakuba' pantsi kwa Mahlati kwesika Ross. Site xa sita -nyusanqeliswa endlwini sasitanyusanqeliswa nasemasimini ngemvula ene ngexa lenkonzo kanye, abantu ebekuqutywa pezu kwabo lomsebenzi opakamileyo betsho ngezimhlope qwa njengegusha zipuma ekucetyweni. Abahedeni bati uBishop Webb uneyeza eliyenza into engenakufumana ifunyanwe, nakuba iwanqabele amadoda aliwaka, ngokuba wati u- Bishop akuya kutandazela imikosi eyayingqinge u-Morosi watulwa u-Morosi kwangalo veki. Xola Mhleli.