. Christian herald and signs of our times . onary to travel any great distanceafoot, owing to the intolerable heat whichsoon exhausts the strength of those whoare not natives. Our photographic illus-tration on this page, shows one of themany discomforts of travel in such clim-ates. It is an incident from the experienceof Mr. Ramseyer. of the Basle Mission tothe African Gold Coast. In crossing apatch of woodland, his hammock-bearershave stumbled and the missionary himselfhas come to grief suddenly, thoughfortunately little worse than a few bruisesresulted from the tumble. Such slips fre-quently
. Christian herald and signs of our times . onary to travel any great distanceafoot, owing to the intolerable heat whichsoon exhausts the strength of those whoare not natives. Our photographic illus-tration on this page, shows one of themany discomforts of travel in such clim-ates. It is an incident from the experienceof Mr. Ramseyer. of the Basle Mission tothe African Gold Coast. In crossing apatch of woodland, his hammock-bearershave stumbled and the missionary himselfhas come to grief suddenly, thoughfortunately little worse than a few bruisesresulted from the tumble. Such slips fre-quently occur, when the carriers are tiredafter a long days work, and their repeti-tion may very reasonably be accepted as asign that the dusky-skinned bearers con-sider their days work done and want togo into camp at once. If the missionarybe wise he will agree to this and savehimself further trouble and the possibilityof more incidents like that so graphi-cally shown in the illustration. 542 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. July 22,.
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