. The heart of Central Africa; mineral wealth and missionary opportunity. lts of this broadcast seed-sowing wasthat soon the chiefs began to send in requests fornative teachers. This was a distinct gain. At firstthe chiefs hud absolutely refused to even considerhaving schools at their villages. But the visits ofour pupils in the kraals during vacations and whileon evangelistic tours carrying some book or otheralways in their pockets, a primer, a h3mn-book, orone of the Gospels, out of which they would read,to the great admiration of the small children, hadresulted in a widespread desire for an
. The heart of Central Africa; mineral wealth and missionary opportunity. lts of this broadcast seed-sowing wasthat soon the chiefs began to send in requests fornative teachers. This was a distinct gain. At firstthe chiefs hud absolutely refused to even considerhaving schools at their villages. But the visits ofour pupils in the kraals during vacations and whileon evangelistic tours carrying some book or otheralways in their pockets, a primer, a h3mn-book, orone of the Gospels, out of which they would read,to the great admiration of the small children, hadresulted in a widespread desire for an educationon the part of both boys and girls, and the young-sters were beginning to show a restlessness and dis-content at the kraal life. They were constantlyrunning away to the mission to go to school. Soit was no longer a question of school or no scliool,but of schools in the kraals or at the Mission. Ac-cordingly the chiefs were compelled to capitulate,and by 1906 requests for teachers to come and livein the kraals began to multiply. We had none as ir. > 2 ^ CI?. Progress. 41 yet fully prepared, but we were able to open workat one kraal six miles away and send a senior stu-dent out there every afternoon to teach place willingly helped to build their ownmud-and-pole schoolhouse, and soon there was notonly a flourishing school, but there were conver-sions, and the Sunday circuit extended to twelvekraals. His experience at tliis place, Mwandiambilas,fitted Solomon Nsingo to take an out-station thenext year. It was a singular coincidence that thefirst call to be answered for a resident nativeteacher should have been made by Shikanga her-self. She who had placed herself on record as ab-solutely and forever determined that her childrenshould never be taught books, and who hadstipulated that we must not preach against gettingdrunk, now welcomed Solomon and his wife, Ma-rita, to her kraal and helped to build the schooland living-house. A few months later there were s
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