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confine myself mainly to modern South African workers, or 

 workers in the Southern half of Africa. 



II. 



I have no intention of treating in detail the various English 

 and other travellers who made the civilized world acquainted 

 with the different lands of Africa, or even those of the present 

 Union. 



We will not linger over the Portuguese writers, their brave 

 missionaries and warriors, who have been so exhaustively treated 

 of by Dr. Theal, except to mention, from the side of philology, 

 the work of Dias, the Jesuit, on Angola, and of Brusciotto on 

 Congo, published in the seventeenth century at Lisbon and Rome 

 respectively. Purchas, in the early seventeenth century, touches 

 lightly on South Africa: Peter Kolbern made known the un- 

 pleasant manners of the Hottentots in German, Dutch and Eng- 

 lish in the early eighteenth century. 



We had a train of visitors — Sparrman, Paterson, Thunberg, 

 Stavorinus, and Le Vaillant, who, himself romantic, reminds us 

 of his ingenious parodist, the greater romancer, Damberger, with 

 his extraordinary fiction of a journey from the Cape, through the 

 Kaffirs, to Timbuctoo. Percival and Barrow arrived at the be- 

 ginning of the eighteenth century. Burchell, Campbell, Lichten- 

 stein, Latrobe the Moravian in the 'teens ; Thompson in the 

 twenties, Owen, Arbousset, Casalis in the thirties, Methuen in the 

 forties, Smith in 1850, left us accounts of their pilgrimage. Bor- 

 cherd had begun his by 1801, but did not publish till '61. 



Time would fail me to tell the tithe of those who since have 

 followed in their train — of the lands and tribes they visited — of 

 the observations they made — of the sciences and nationalities 

 they represented. They are a great cloud of witnesses, many 

 of them worthy to rank with the pioneer ex])lorers of West an'l 

 Central Africa, with Park, Barth, and others in the former, with 

 Bruce, Burton, Speke, Grant, Stanley, the unfortunate Tinne 

 ladies, Petherick, the Bakers, Sweinfurth, in the Nile basin; and 

 in East Africa, with Rebmann, Krapf, and a host of others ; ad- 

 ministrators like Gordon, hunters like Oswell, and the late heroic 

 Selous ; explorers and scientists like Holub and Miss Mary Kings- 

 ley ; missionaries like Du Plessis in recent times, and earlier Dr. 

 Moffat, whose son, Mr. John Moffat, is still happily with us — a 

 fount of information about the Bechuana and the days of Loben- 

 gula. These, in North and South, helped, in one way or another, 

 in less or greater degree, to open up the mighty continent which 

 we inhabit. One name, of course, stands out above them all for 

 universal travel, many-sided interest, and appeal to the native 

 'mind, for his magnificent character, his imperial determination, 

 his grit and patience — the immortal name of Dr. David Living- 

 stone. 



In spite of the intelligible but regrettable opposition of the 

 London Missionary Society, which would have chained the Pro- 



