. The story of Africa and its explorers. , occupied the field that hadto be abandoned in the early career of theproject. Now, by a good understanding withthe Scottish missionaries already at work inthe same quarter, it has the superintendenceof a considerable area of the lake shore, and,under the control of Dr. Smythies, Bishop ofCentral Africa, is doing excellent serviceto civilisation, not only by teaching thenatives, but by taking charge of the slavescaptured and set free by British cruisers. Among these proteges of the UniversitiesMission are the inhabitants of some extinct 136 THE STORY O
. The story of Africa and its explorers. , occupied the field that hadto be abandoned in the early career of theproject. Now, by a good understanding withthe Scottish missionaries already at work inthe same quarter, it has the superintendenceof a considerable area of the lake shore, and,under the control of Dr. Smythies, Bishop ofCentral Africa, is doing excellent serviceto civilisation, not only by teaching thenatives, but by taking charge of the slavescaptured and set free by British cruisers. Among these proteges of the UniversitiesMission are the inhabitants of some extinct 136 THE STORY OF AFRICA. settlements of veritable Lake - people, as is not uncommon in otherparts of Africa, have built their huts of collec-tions of long poles driven into the bottomof the lake, so as to escape their enemiesmore easily. At different dates one of theirmission-stations has suffered from the incur-sions of the Magwangwara, a powerful race ofKaffir origin, who from time to time carryfire and sword throughout Nyassaland and. BANDAWE, MISSION-STATION OP THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. {From a Photngraph hy Mr. Fred Moir.) even as far as the coast. These people arenotoriously bloodthirsty and for ages havebeen the scourge of hundreds of villages inthe Yao and Maku countries. As yet allefforts to influence them for good have beenunavailing. The Machingas, another evenmore powerful and devastating tribe, whoserange is farther to the north, up to thepresent time have shown themselves equallyunimpressionable by the agents of the missionthat have visited them. To reach the lakestation from Lindi along the Rovuma river,which, it may be remembered, was first ex-plored by Livingstone, demands a weary trampof four hundred miles as the crow flies, but at least half as much again as African travelnecessarily entails. Hence the Shire andZambesi water-road down to Quilimane isgenerally adopted as an alternative route. Altogether the Universities Mission haveexpended on their labours
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