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Dondi June 14, 1928

Dear Alma:

This is nearly a birthday letter and will also serve as an announcement.  Kathleen can put in the society column of the Fernbank News that Mr. Uncle Fred and Miss Sibyl Hosking were married on May 30 at Vila Silva Porto and Chissamba.  At V.S.P. we signed the civil register and returned to Chissamba for a church wedding.  The service was in Umbundu.  So she must obey when I speak to her in Umbundu.

We were to have been at the Administrar [???or something???] at 9 a.m. but were late.  Mr. Steed borrowed a “Dodge” to take us there and broke a front spring on the way.  Then he was still later getting away from V.S.P. so that we did not sit down to the wedding breakfast until after 3 o’clock.

The whole series of delays made us late getting to Dondi so we spent the night here.  In the morning we went to Mt. Elumbanganda, near Bailundo.

We had our tent pitched near the foot and next morning climbed to our camp on the top, about 400 meters higher.  From the top we could see the Chileso Mountains, 75 miles away, Huambo could be seen about 50 miles in the other direction.  There was a good mountain stream for our water supply.

We were in camp six days and then returned to Chissamba on the Thursday train.  I had to come back to Dondi last Monday for a case and Sibyl will come tomorrow so we have been separated for three days.

June 25, Annual meeting has been in session since the 18th.  The final reading of the minutes will be finished before this letter.

The big news as far as you are concerned is this.  We have resigned from the Canadian Mission and will be leaving here the last week in July.

We will probably sail on the German boat to Cape Town and from there go to England to get passage to America (or Canada).  Now we know of sailing dates.  We will leave about July 24 to accompany Mrs. Currie who was to sail this month but is too weak for the journey without proper escort.

You could get a letter to us in care of R.G. Bousor + Co

              49 Leadenhall St.
              London EC 1

We should be there between the middle and end of August according to the connections we make at Cape Town.

In any event we would not remain in England longer than necessary to get a passage to Montreal or New York.

With love

​Fred.

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Mt. Elumbanganda: Googling got me just about nothing.  Google said that in Chronicles of Bailundo there is:
King Cingi hated Luanda. When Luanda gave the order to make war against him, the whites won. Consequently, he fled to Mount Elumbanganda.
But it wasn’t going to be worth the bother right now to read through the whole thing to find out about it.

https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn:cambridge.org:id:article:S0001972021000553/resource/name/S0001972021000553sup003.pdf

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Note from Scanning: This letter has two letters from Fred clipped to it:
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Kathleen can put in the society column of the Fernbank News that Mr. Uncle Fred and Miss Sibyl Hosking were married on May 30 at Vila Silva Porto and Chissamba.
Due to the mention of the Fernbank News, I've added linked this letter to the Fernbank page on this website. And now I have more of the Fernbank News than I did before, and I can explain that the "Mr. Uncle Fred" was what Kay had called Fred in the Fernbank News.​Mr. Uncle Fred will come back from Africa in less than two years.

Unfortunately, in 1928 Kay was in Savannah, not Woods Hole, so it was Alma who reported on the wedding, pretty much copying what Fred wrote:
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