Nyassaland, travel sketches, selected from 'Tropical Africa'.1890 |
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Sida 80 - Government explicitly stated, was to extend the knowledge already attained of the geography, and mineral and agricultural resources, of Eastern and Central Africa ; to improve our acquaintance with the inhabitants, and to endeavour to engage them to apply themselves to industrial pursuits, and to the cultivation of their lands, with a view to the production of raw material to be exported to England in return for British manufactures...
Sida 48 - Bandawe' is a great moral lesson. And I cherish no more sacred memory of my life than that of a com.munion service in the little Bandawe" chapel, when the sacramental cup was handed to me by the bare black arm of a native communicant — a communicant whose life, tested afterwards in many an hour of trial with me on the Tanganyika plateau, gave him perhaps a better right to be there than any of us.
Sida 56 - The African is often blamed for being lazy, but it is a misuse of words. He does not need to work ; with so bountiful a nature round him it would be gratuitous to work. And his indolence, therefore, as it is called, is just as much a part of himself as his flat nose, and as little blameworthy as slowness in a tortoise. The fact is, Africa is a nation of the unemployed.
Sida 36 - African footpath is on the whole a bee-line, no fifty yards of it are ever straight. And the reason is not far to seek. If a stone is encountered no native will ever think of removing it. Why should he ? It is easier to walk round it. The next man who comes that way will do the same. . . . Whatever the cause, it is certain that for persistent straightforwardness in the general, and utter vacillation and irresolution in the particular, the African roads are unique in engineering.
Sida 55 - This man is apparently quite happy; he has practically no wants. One stick, pointed, makes him a spear; two sticks rubbed together make him a fire; fifty sticks tied together make him a house. The bark he peels from them makes his clothes; the fruits which hang on them form his food.
Sida 43 - ... struggle. He rises, if he does rise, a shadow ; and slowly accumulates strength for the next attack, which he knows too well will not disappoint him. No one has ever yet got to the bottom of African fever. Its geographical distribution is still unmapped, but generally it prevails over the whole east and west coasts within the tropical limit, along all the river- courses, on the shores of the inland lakes, and in all low-lying and marshy districts. The higher plateaux, presumably, are comparatively...
Sida 41 - Livingstonia manse — the head missionary's house. It was spotlessly clean ; English furniture was in the room, a medicine chest, familiarlooking dishes were in the cupboards, books lying about, but there was no missionary in it. I went to the next house — it was the school, the benches were there and the blackboard, but there were no scholars and no teacher.
Sida 118 - I remember being roused by a low talking. I looked out of my tent ; a flood of moonlight lit up the forest ; and there, kneeling upon the ground, was a little group of natives, and Moolu in the centre conducting evening prayers. Every night afterward this service was repeated, no matter how long the march was nor how tired the men. I make no comment. But this I will say — Moolu's life gave him the right to do it. Mission reports are often said to be valueless ; they are less so than antimission...