III. 
Missionary Enterprise. 
There are three principal fields of missionary labour in 
Africa ; viz., the West Coast, South Africa, and various parts 
of the East Coast. On the West Coast, we find agents and 
stations belonging to the Wesley ans, the Church Missionary 
Society, the Baptists, the Scotch United Presbyterians, the 
American Presbyterians, and the Basle Missionary Society, 
besides those of one or two smaller bodies. In the South 
African colonies, are to be found agents and stations of 
German missions, French missions, Paris Protestant, Finnish 
Lutherans, Moravians, Free Church of Scotland, Rhenish 
missions, and the London Missionary Society. So large a 
centre of mission operations has South Africa become, that 
at the present day no less than thirteen or fourteen British and 
Continental societies, are represented there. Eastern, and 
Eastern Central Africa, is the third, and, at the present time, 
most interesting field of African missions. Several societies 
are labouring on the coast and in the interior — notably, the 
Universities' mission at Zanzibar, and in the Shire district ; 
the United Methodist Free Church mission in, and around 
Mombassa ; the Scottish Free Church mission on the shores 
of Lake Nyassa ; the Church Missionary Society's mission 
around the Victoria Nyanza, and in Uganda ; and the 
missions of the London Missionary Society around Lake 
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