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1/20/1957 - Pastor Andersson, Mr. Hagner, and the People-of-the-Deaf-God by Smith Hempstone Jr.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS doesn about western Eritrea SH Pastor Andersson Hagner People Deaf God January U S Consulate Asmara Eritrea Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs Fifth Avenu New York Nw York Dear Sr Rogers I think Pastor Andersson He Swedish worth knowing The Pastor Pavla little north Stock So Greta comfortable He western Eritrea replace older brother Lutheran missionary Kunama country His brother seems strong enough He threaded gorges Abyssinian massif plain Keren It beginning affair botween Pastor Kunama which lasts Greta three years later years which followed three ghters We Pastor comfortable study Keron The above level aboard swaying battered queasy knapsack Pastor Andersson Albergo Sicilia repair Ristorante Baffone restore tissues spaghetti washed Eritrean We trouble finding Ltheran mission there Europeans Keren mission school blinding sunlight darkness Pastor house He Andersson haired heavy ankled woman seemed irections talking young Norwegian couple named Rasmussen Rasmussez mathematics instructor assawa cadet school Ethiopian taking Kunama oountry short visit The Kunama extremely primitiv pagan tribe Nilotic origin north Barentu There about still maintain their Stone Age Now Pastor explained going Kunama country It possessed women Spirits SH tribe would enter women would adopt characteristics people never before The would speak strange tongue dance until dropped exhaustion It strange The Norwegians invited visit assawa The Pastor apolegized would unable around today right middle crucial translation Bible stories Kunama The New Testament explained translated tribe years Would eight clock tomorrow morning early It would Could where Nr Taylor Point Four digger lived He Taylor Wasn there American missionaries The Pastor frowned little Yes there They pentecostal people Their mission Sensing point thinking perhaps other looking mission named Hagner might pentecostals dropped subject wolfed hnother Nrs Andersson Swedish pastries leave We spent afternoon wandering around Keren colorful market visiting Italian cemetery Keren market although small cosmopolitan drunken Bja Wuzz warrior wooden sprig lavender bougainvilla jammed woolly lur0hes native tavern knife native butter which dresses dripping women garbed brightly colored cheap which bought little Indian trader corner their noses ringed their wrists ankles jingle grade silver bracelets which mined nearby bleat goats being dragged market deafening babble children reciting Koran Nuslim country again hangs In cemetery On graves perhaps Italians right those equal number ascaris There inscriptions metal crosses giving ignoto Unknown regiment From cemetery ridges where Narch Camerons Peak named Scots stormed dozen times could Peake Peak named British mander there Fort Dologorodoe toughest Italian stronghold We pictures hotel The eparated walls thickness short order house hamburger apparently populated Italian sererity staging blanket party Sleep comes slowly eight Pastor Andersson immaculate khakis battered panama waiting We climb venerable Austin valley Battle Keren Feb Mar seals Italian East Africa Swedish Lutheran Mission KASALA AGORDAT Station Kunama U Army Country BARENTU ADI UG RI AUM Axumite Kingdom D GONDAR Former capital TANA Source Blue Nile ETHIOPIA R ITREA COPTIC HIGHLANDS 8000feet RAILROADS ROADS FRONTIERS I00 miles MASSAW A Norwegians train Ethiopian Navy GULF OF British Expedition lands marches miles Gondar deteats Etlipins Withdra RED ADI CAIEH ADIGRAT us0ec gunrunn Recent Shifta attacks LBND DJIBOUT DESSYE BRITISH SOMALILAND Ababa AEL SH In better travelled There people enjoy watch colorful country Still progress He doubtfully change progress He takes Lorenzini grave desolate mountain It quiet there silence broken striking somewhere valley below A camel train He drives Happy Valley where General Platt Indian troops covered themselves glory And talks He tells years Swedish mission Eritrea How first eleven missionaries assawa Kunama country stayed years eight graves others Sweden return missionaries their converts Copts pagans There uslim converts He satisf ohammedanism religion explains It suits their their traditions A cannot sleep conceives until weaned years It another Now there eighteen Swedish Lutheran missionaries Eritrea about number Eritrean educated missionaries ordained preach speaks pride their facility words ability interpret Gospels their countrymen Their hampered funds their confined schools clinics conversions among young He setting school third whole Africa It during He children He himself stayed The Italians individll But government would He Italian government exchange Vatican agreed Ethiopia Ertrea exclusive Catholic preserve He again along vidual priests village But doesn their methods baptise thousands among Kunama converting chiefs He Prefers converts Christ ianity about In years Swedish Lutherans conversiens In afternoon takes button factor The owner caste recently committed suicide The Pastor explains worked federation Ethiopia hoping social equality which lackin under Italians Italian withdrawal however meant protection aginst natives despise castes And killed himself SH The buttons They dissolve glass water The factory primitive production Com petition plastics manager explains getting tougher Then British cemetery It about Italian Again native troops buried white troops other Nany proud regiments repre sented Cameron Highlanders Yorkshire Light Infantry West Hamp shire Fusileers First Sikhs From there Chapel Black Madonna It built inside trunk giant baobab Then Nrs Andersson They having dinner Senahit Hotel Since party little We afterwards Pastor breaks takes cigarette He smokes We mission coffee The Pastor plays organ N_rs Andersson shows Kitty She makes sells raise money school The Pastor explains difficulty American pente costals asked advice Keren pointed villages where there schools clinics where mission would great He returned leave Sweden Keren taking children school their school The natives smile People Deaf God because noise We terms about Nr Hagner He laughs shows reads Olle Andersson Hagner He added Hagner recent years because there Olle nderssons Sweden But people still Andersson Would Kunama country We opportunity Then Barentu When saying goodbye claps shoulder quips If Pastor Andersson Hagner there As dusty Bach oratorio fills night Otherwise Keren quiet Sincerely Sm Hempne Jr Ytalian War Cemetery Keren From graveyard ridges where Rec New York