. The story of Africa and its explorers. pices of the Society for thePropagation of the- Gospel there are stillflourishing missions in Kaffraria, Natal, the 128 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. Orange Free State, Mashonaland, and, in short,all over southern Africa, the religious in-fluences of which are now controlled by tenbishops. The South African missionaries,though they contributed largely to our know-ledge of the natives, did not, as a rule, take O 7 7 7 any notable part in the work of geographicalexploration—Livingstone, a name which over-shadows all the others, so far as travel is con-cerned, bein
. The story of Africa and its explorers. pices of the Society for thePropagation of the- Gospel there are stillflourishing missions in Kaffraria, Natal, the 128 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. Orange Free State, Mashonaland, and, in short,all over southern Africa, the religious in-fluences of which are now controlled by tenbishops. The South African missionaries,though they contributed largely to our know-ledge of the natives, did not, as a rule, take O 7 7 7 any notable part in the work of geographicalexploration—Livingstone, a name which over-shadows all the others, so far as travel is con-cerned, being, of course, a notable exception. the heels of the discoverer, and, in severalcases, has actually himself been North-the explorer of the reoion where Eastern A f Tl \ • his labours were in future to Abyssinian •]• troubles. The Church Missionary Society openedwork in Egypt in the year 1826, and fouryears later extended its operations to Abys-sinia, with results which have been no moresuccessful than could have been Yet it is safe to say that the early pioneers,the hunters, and the travellers whose names areconnected with the mapping of the regionsjust outside the limits of the Cape Colonycould never have been so successful in theirwork had it not been for the mission-stationswhich afforded these pioneers welcomeasylums at periods when a civilised shelterwas of the utmost moment to them. It is, however, in North-East, Central, andEast Africa that the missionarys work haslinked itself most markedly with that of the geo-graphical explorer ; for, in not a few instances,the missionary has followed very closely on
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