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Tanganyika. These missions are being carried farther 
into the interior, each year ; and each vantage-point gained 
will only serve as a starting-point for fresh efforts. It is of 
these Central African missions that this section will treat. 
The enthusiasm produced by successive revelations of 
explorers, and the accounts of teeming populations, like 
that over which M'tesa ruled, culminated in direct and well- 
planned missionary effort. Upon receipt of Stanley's intel- 
ligence, the Church Missionary Society determined to accede 
to M'tesa's request, and occupy the country bordering on 
the Victorian Lake. The Free Church of Scotland con- 
templated founding a mission on Lake Nyassa, to be called 
Livingstonia, in honour of Livingstone ; and the London 
Missionary Society, in no whit behind its great sister 
societies, set about taking up the region around Lake 
Tanganyika. 
Mr. Robert Arthington, of Leeds, laid a proposal before 
the London Missionary Directors, that they should so occupy 
Ujiji, on the borders of the lake, promising five thousand 
pounds towards the work. The Directors of that society 
decided to accept the offer, and despatch forthwith the Rev. 
Roger Price, an experienced South African missionary, to 
Zanzibar, to make inquiries, and take preliminary measures. 
Mr. Price started for Zanzibar in April, 1877, and, on his 
arrival there, proceeded to attempt the journey into the 
interior. He had had considerable acquaintance with 
wagon-travelling in South Africa, and attempted to use the 
same kind of conveyance on this eastern coast. Experience, 
however, proved that wagon-travelling would not do for 
Central Africa. For a long distance from the coast, the 
road lay uphill through thicket and bush, while tsetse fly 
dogged their footsteps, and poisoned their cattle. Only 200 
miles of country were traversed during three months, while 
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