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." 



