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M. GABRIELLI BE RIVALTA, 



graphers : en revanche I met M. Gabrielli de 

 E^ivalta, a capuchin of the Lyons Mission, who 

 was proceeding to his head- quarters, the before 

 inaccessible Kaffa country. He had lately learned 

 at Kome that four or five other missioners would 

 be sent to reap the unparalleled harvest reported 

 by Monsignor Guglielmo Massaga, the Vicario 

 Apostolico dei Gallas, who had made that place his 

 home, and who had sent branch establishments to 

 Enarea and Goodroo. Some 40,000 pagans had, 

 it was asserted, embraced Christianity, and con- 

 versions were still taking place in legions. Un- 

 able to enter Africa via Masawah, on account of 

 the religious excitement that burned high 

 amongst the Abyssinians, Father Gabrielli re- 

 solved to land at Makdishu, and to march upon 

 Ganana, travelling alone and unarmed, amon gst the 

 fiercest tribes of East Africa, the Gallas, and the 

 Somal. The successes which have crowned the 

 efforts of Catholic missioners in these eastern 

 regions reflect honour upon their system, and 

 cast a deep shade upon the desultory indivi- 

 dualistic display of Protestant energy. On the 

 West Coast of Africa, however, I found that 

 both had equally and completely failed. 



At length, strength and energy returning, I 

 resolved once more to visit the coast, and to col- 



