An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa: being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo . ool. Now he has been sent to schoolat Loanda, and they say in a little while he willgo to Portugal. He was perfectly spoilt before heleft here. He will learn at Loanda every conceiv-able kind of wickedness. So I am afraid he ismore likely to be a curse than a blessing whenhe returns. However, sufficient unto the day isthe evil thereof. We must trust that in some waythings will be overruled for good. Some weeks after the foregoing paragraphs werewritten, th
An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa: being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo . ool. Now he has been sent to schoolat Loanda, and they say in a little while he willgo to Portugal. He was perfectly spoilt before heleft here. He will learn at Loanda every conceiv-able kind of wickedness. So I am afraid he ismore likely to be a curse than a blessing whenhe returns. However, sufficient unto the day isthe evil thereof. We must trust that in some waythings will be overruled for good. Some weeks after the foregoing paragraphs werewritten, the tottering walls of the new cathedralcrashed down in a storm. December 26th.—The new chapel is not yet inprocess of building. We are only getting thingsready. The collection is coming in well this year,and we hope to be quite prepared to commencethe work at the beginning of the dry season, nextMay. Tom is architect, and I suppose will bebuilder also. It will be a big job. February 7th. (To Miss Ethel Percival.)—Thingsgo on much the same here. It is really difficult towrite about anything. We have been reading in odd times a book. 1898] AT SAN SALVADOR 171 called The Sowers, by the author of the Tentsof Kedar. It is good and rather exciting, but ittakes us a long time to get through a book unlesswe are ill. Did I tell you that Uncle is busybuilding a dispensary among other things? Itwill be a nice little building when finished—oneside for men and the other for women, whichlatter will be my domain, so I am watching itwith great interest. At present I have to dis-pense from our own house, which takes up room,moreover the smell is not always pleasant. Ifyou were to see some of the awful sores I dontknow what you would say! I think I told youthe Residents wife has a baby. He is six monthsold now, and I nurse him occasionally. He is adear. I am his medical attendant. The momentanything is the matter with him they send offfor me. Poor little chap, its hard on a babyhere, though
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