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hundred and ten miles and the plateau as five 

 thousand feet altitude. He thought the chief diffi- 

 culty would be got over in the first forty or fifty 

 miles. Dr. Stevenson, being favourably impressed, 

 gave the above sum, and the work was undertaken. 

 After great difficulties the first twenty-six miles 

 were completed, but at the cost of the engineer's 

 life ; he died from fever and dysentery on 30th 

 August 1883. A year passed, and another young 

 engineer called McEwan came out from Glasgow 

 to carry on the road. Another seventeen miles 

 were added, then he too fell ill and died. The 

 road, which starts from Karonga, had now reached 

 the plateau, and from here a good native path leads 

 to Lake Tanganyika. 



The Dutch Reformed Church has a Mission in 

 Nyasaland and one in North-East Rhodesia. 



The London Missionary Society is established 

 in Cape Colony, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and 

 the Tanganyika district ; among the tribes it in- 

 fluences in the latter district are the Wawembe, 

 some of whom were in our caravan after leaving 

 Mpika, in North-East Rhodesia. This Mission has 

 twenty-seven English missionaries in the four 

 districts, besides two lady missionaries. 



The Paris Evangelical Mission, founded in 1885 

 by the late Francois Coillard, has a Mission ex- 

 tending from Livingstone, Victoria Falls, about 

 three hundred miles along the Zambesi river to 

 Barotseland. 



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