The proud truth of missionary's remarkable 'invisible' Khoi wife.(News)

From: Pretoria News (South Africa) | Date: May 26, 2007 | Copyright information

In November 1818, German missionary Johann Hinrich Schmelen sent an important letter from his home in Bethany, in what is now southern Namibia, to his superiors in the London Missionary Society.

In his carefully scripted missive, he explained in some detail the circumstances in which he had come to marry Zara, a baptised young Nama woman from a community living in an "outpost" near the Pella mission station, then called Kamas, on the Orange River.

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