416 THE LAND OF THE LION 
inadequate, is assured the capable civil official. These 
come for a time, stay but a few years, and then go home. 
The missionary’s home is among his black folk. He lives 
among them and dies among them. The splendid assur- 
ance that upheld the great missionary Krapf in those early 
desperate days, when East Africa was quite unknown, is 
still his. ‘‘ Though many missionaries may fall in the fight, 
yet the survivors will pass over the slain in the trenches, and 
take the great African fortress for the Lord.” 
