. The story of Africa and its explorers. THE ILALA AT MATOPE.(From a Photograph by Mr. Fred Moir.) force of arms, checked the inroads of theArab slave-raiders in the country along itsborders. Many an explorer has found thesemission-stations and trading-posts welcomecentres from which to depart for the the missionaries themselves have rendereda by no means unimportant service to thecause of opening up Africa by means of ex-ploration. For instance, the first voyage ofthe Ilala^ round the north end of Nyassa,under the direction of Mr. Young andDr. Laws, showed that, instead of the lak
. The story of Africa and its explorers. THE ILALA AT MATOPE.(From a Photograph by Mr. Fred Moir.) force of arms, checked the inroads of theArab slave-raiders in the country along itsborders. Many an explorer has found thesemission-stations and trading-posts welcomecentres from which to depart for the the missionaries themselves have rendereda by no means unimportant service to thecause of opening up Africa by means of ex-ploration. For instance, the first voyage ofthe Ilala^ round the north end of Nyassa,under the direction of Mr. Young andDr. Laws, showed that, instead of the lakebeing 150 miles long, as had been supposed, * Youngf, Nyassa : A Journal of Adventures whilstexplorinp: Lake Nyassa, Central Africa, and establishin: Livingstonia. Stewart and Laws a little later also addedextensively to our knowledge of the countryon the shores of the sheet which they and otherfriends have made a British lake. Theycircumnavigated Nyassa, landing on the eastand west sides and north end, at many placesevery day, while D
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