An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa: being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo . . 52 Chief Noso and part of his Family . .122 Bwingidi (Evangelists Wife) and Girls SchoolAT Nkaba, an Out-station near San Salvador 140 San Salvador : Ruins of Ancient PortugueseCathedral . . . .170 San Salvador. Old School-chapet, . . 188 San Salvador. New Chapel .... 188 Ferry over Nkisi River. Mrs. Lewis in Canoe . 224 Home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis at Comber. MemorialStation, Kibokolo (1903) . . .224 xiii xiv ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Dispensary at Kibokolo.
An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa: being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo . . 52 Chief Noso and part of his Family . .122 Bwingidi (Evangelists Wife) and Girls SchoolAT Nkaba, an Out-station near San Salvador 140 San Salvador : Ruins of Ancient PortugueseCathedral . . . .170 San Salvador. Old School-chapet, . . 188 San Salvador. New Chapel .... 188 Ferry over Nkisi River. Mrs. Lewis in Canoe . 224 Home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis at Comber. MemorialStation, Kibokolo (1903) . . .224 xiii xiv ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Dispensary at Kibokolo. Mrs. Lewis StandingIN Doorway ...... 240 Bridge over Lusengele Stream, near ComberStation, Kibokolo ..... 260 Grass House at Kimpese in which Mr. and lived during construction of Perma-nent Buildings (1908) . . .302 Kimpese: Kongo Training Institution. Part ofStudents Quarters . . .312 Kimpese : Kongo Training Institution. The Lewis (Principal), Mrs. Lewis, TheRev. S. E. Moon (, Tutor), and Students(1009) 324 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA showing KAMERUN (CAMEROONS) andTHE LOWER and MIDDLE CONGO. Baptist Missionary Societys Stations thus SSaXvadnr^ Bartholomew, Ed in CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS /^ WEN ELEN THOMAS was born in London,\Ia and resided in the metropolis until thecall of Africa drew her across the sea. She neverlived in Wales, save during brief holiday visits,yet the Principality had its rights in her characterand career, and a cherished place in her naturalaffection. Her father was a Welshman, and herhusband was a Welshman. All her life long thebeauty of the western hills glimmered throughthe dear home talk ; she was passing happy inher occasional holiday sojourns among them; andoften, when spent by labour in the torrid heat ofAfrica, longed for wings which might bear heraway to some bracing mountain height in father, George Thomas, was born at Maent-wTOg, to fair-seeming prospects; but his sky wassoon overclouded by dire bereavement, and his
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