Missionary Enterprise. 
them throw down their loads in the way and decamp, taking 
their pay with them. Then came the catastrophe ! a large 
body of men from Mirambo came and cleared away every- 
thing remaining of M. Broyon's, opened bales of cloth to pay 
the men, and have gone off with the lot to Mirambo/' 
In the following April, Dr. Mullens, Rev. W. Griffith, and 
Dr. Southon, a medical missionary, sailed for Zanzibar, 
in order to reinforce the Central African mission, and to 
aid in its development. Dr. Mullens was well known 
as a tried, and experienced missionary ; he had gained 
much knowledge in various mission-fields, and carried to 
the onerous task, the wisdom born of long and intimate 
acquaintance with mission work. It was hoped that his 
assistance in the work of establishing the mission, would 
have proved very helpful, but events showed how futile 
were these hopes. Mr. Dodgshun succeeded in joining 
Messrs. Hore and Hutley, on March 27th, 1879; but the 
exposure and labour of his journey had so undermined his 
constitution, that he sank in death, on April 3rd, and was 
buried beside Mr. Thomson. War raged around the lake, 
communications with the coast were interrupted, death was 
/;hinning their ranks, but still the devoted pioneers kept at 
work, and awaited the arrival of the new missionary party. 
But death was dogging their footsteps, too. Dr. Mullens 
had, on arriving at Zanzibar, decided to go into the interior. 
He proceeded some distance, but illness laid its iron hand 
upon him, and he was stricken down. After some painful 
days and nights of watching, and eager ministry of friends, 
he died at Chakombe, and was buried at Mpwapwa, in the 
burial-ground of the Church Missionary Society. With 
bursting hearts, they laid him down, feeling sore at the loss, 
but comforted by the thought that his influence for good 
•on that Central African mission, was not lost, but would 
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