. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . American Boardand went to one of the hardest of mission=fields, wrotea monograph of great value on the botany, geology andtopography of the regions environing the Cape. Hiscareer, though brief, shed luster on his Christian conse-cration and on science. Another representative of theAmerican Board showed the superiority of seeing overunseeing eyes and of science over sciolism. It wasasserted in the United States about 1865 that a race ofmen with tails
. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . American Boardand went to one of the hardest of mission=fields, wrotea monograph of great value on the botany, geology andtopography of the regions environing the Cape. Hiscareer, though brief, shed luster on his Christian conse-cration and on science. Another representative of theAmerican Board showed the superiority of seeing overunseeing eyes and of science over sciolism. It wasasserted in the United States about 1865 that a race ofmen with tails had been discovered in Africa. Non-Christian circles reposed faith in the claim. But themissionary came close to these caudate persons, andascertained that what the observer at a distance hadsupposed to be bodily tails were nothing more than coat*tails. The wearing of skins with the tails of the originalowners hanging down from them still had caused thefalse impression. It may turn out in like fashion that the monkeys * Possibly Hanno, a Carthaginian explorer of West Africa in the sixth cen-tury before Christ, was the original
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