My travels in North West Rhodesia : or, A missionary journey of sixteen thousand miles . convenience and comfort ofit. A part of the plan of extension, three yearsago, when Nambala was opened, was to makeNKala an out station of Nanzela, with aTeaching Evangelist in charge. Since thenthe work has been in the hands of , one of the young men sent fromAliwal. He was never a very quick student,but a nice fellow of excellent character. Iam glad to find that the experiment (for this isthe first station to be thus treated), has so farbeen a success. He was not one of my mostsuccessful men in
My travels in North West Rhodesia : or, A missionary journey of sixteen thousand miles . convenience and comfort ofit. A part of the plan of extension, three yearsago, when Nambala was opened, was to makeNKala an out station of Nanzela, with aTeaching Evangelist in charge. Since thenthe work has been in the hands of , one of the young men sent fromAliwal. He was never a very quick student,but a nice fellow of excellent character. Iam glad to find that the experiment (for this isthe first station to be thus treated), has so farbeen a success. He was not one of my mostsuccessful men in the shop work, but sincebeing thrown on his own resources, he hasdeveloped fair aptitude. He has built thehouse he lives in. It has three good stands in an enclosure which secures itagainst the lions. He is now building akitchen, and guest chamber, that he may havea room for a friend or brother teacher whenhe comes along. All this is the property ofthe Church. Mr. Price tells me that Eamathehas done the chief work in building thechurch, which reflects great credit on him and. WORK AT NKALA. 143 his helpers. There is an aspect of thedevotion of this young native worker, whichtouches me very much. As in the case of theEuropeans, the women and children suffermost here. He has lost two children, and hiswife has had to go down country twice,because of her health. ^e has been inBasutoland now for some months, and to bearthe medical and other expenses thus involvedhe is living on the coarse and common foodof the people here. He has had neither breadnor meat for months. He cannot afford tobuy flour; and although game is all abouthim, and he has a gun and rifle, he cannot getcartridges, and yet, without a murmur, thebrave fellow sticks to his post. We invitedhim to dinner with us, and our bread ranshort. I asked him if he could lend us apiece till our cook had baked; then he had totell me of his position. It will never beknown how much our work owes to thesemen. They bear great
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