CHAPTER VIII 



NYASALAND AND THE LOWER ZAMBESI : A COLONY 

 OF TRIBULATIONS AND AN EAST COAST GOLGOTHA 



At the end of 1909 I arrived in Fort Jameson 

 on my way back to South Africa. It was 

 extremely difficult to obtain any '' tenga-tengas," 

 as nearly all the natives were working in their 

 gardens, and when I received an offer from the 

 Government to engage thirty-seven boys pro- 

 ceeding to Blantyre to bring back cotton seed, 

 I immediately decided to take myself and my 

 trophies back by that route. 



If one enters the Nyasaland Protectorate from 

 North-Eastern Rhodesia, the grip that Mission 

 work has obtained on the country quickly 

 manifests itself, for at Magwero, close to the 

 frontier, is an outpost of the Dutch Reformed 

 Church. 



Different people have different views on mission 

 work in Africa, and I can scarcely believe that 

 my opinions on the subject would altogether 

 coincide with those of the Magwero Mission. 



So long as England and the other great civilized 

 countries of the world have their slum cities with 

 their unutterable squalor and misery and poverty, 

 all African mission stations must remain as monu- 

 ments to our own heartlessness, our own criminal 

 disregard for that old saying into which is 

 crammed a wealth of worldly logic and kindness — 

 charity begins at home. 



I but ask you to visualize for a moment two 



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