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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. MISSION LIFE IN THE MOMBASA REGION. A WEEK after his arrival he set out, with Mr. Wilson as his companion, to visit Ribe, the principal mission station. He was amazed at the character of the road which led to it. "Shade of Macadam!" he exclaims, " what roads these are! From six to eighteen inches broad, they meander amid hill and dale like the most winding of rivers; a fallen tree is sufficient to cause a diversion, or, if not, it is left still athwart the path, a stumbling block to all posterity. A declivity, however steep, is never engineered by excavation or embankment, but remains to test the sure-footedness of every passing donkey and the agility of heavily-burdened caravan porters; a torrent is never bridged over, but must be forded, an impossible feat sometimes in the rainy season." There are rainmakers in Africa--road-makers would be very useful. Mr. Wilson was taken ill on the road to Ribe, and had to be carried thither on an improvised hammock. As they approached it, children met them with their smiling welcomes, men with muskets discharged them in the air, and, when they reached the mission gates, hundreds of natives received the newcomer with musical honours. If he did not hear " sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer," he was welcomed with mouth accordions, tin whistles, horns and drums, and the screeching of women through all or above all. A more appropriate welcome was given at a religious service conducted by Mr. Carthew and attended by about 300 people. A few days later, proposing to visit Tzunza, a small station on one of the arms of the Mombasa Creek, he had his first experience of the disappointments resulting from that disregard of punctuality which characterizes the African races. The dilatoriness of the porters made them so lat...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217601764
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217601766
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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