GARENGANZE ; 
OR, 
SEVEN YEARS' PIONEER WORK IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 
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I. 
©n tj)e caaap to tl)e Zambesu 
(July, i88i, to August, 1882.) 
The Voyage to the Cape — Natal — Extracts from Diary — Orange Free State — 
The Transvaal — Potchefstroom — Fate of a Native Tribe — The Boers — 
The Limpopo River — Bushmen — Shoshong — Chief Kama and his People — 
Leaving the last Mission Station — The Kalahari Desert — Village Preaching 
among the Bechuana — The Botletle River — Desert Experiences — The 
Mababi River — The Basubia — The Tsetse Fly — The Zambesi reached. 
THE VOYAGE TO THE CAPE. 
HAVING bidden farewell to my parents, brothers and sisters, 
and many friends in Glasgow, the last family link was 
severed on the 19th July, 1881, on board the Dublin Castle^ in 
the East India Docks, by parting from my brother William, who 
had come thus far to see me off. At nine that evening we 
anchored off Gravesend for the night. After the bustle of seeing 
baggage stowed away, I tried to settle down in the little berth 
provided for second-class passengers — not too comfortable at the 
best, but to my weary mind and heavy heart it seemed most 
comfortless. 
Next morning, however, things looked brighter, as the steamer 
slowly wended her way down the Thames, leaving the great 
smoke-cloud of the city behind. Soon we were off the Goodwin 
Sands, and as night came on Dover lights were in full view. 
At Dartmouth we took on board H. M, mails, and by this 
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