Stanley in Africa: The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer, and Other Travelers, Pioneers and MissionariesBoyd, James P. (James Penny)
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Stanley in Africa: The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer, and Other Travelers, Pioneers and Missionaries
Boyd, James P. (James Penny)
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
THE WHITE MAN IN AFRICA, 526
Egyptian and Roman Colonists; Moorish invasion; Portugese advent; the
commercial and missionary approach; triumphs of late explorers;
can the white man live in Africa?; colonizing and civilizing;
Stanley’s personal experience; he has opened a momentous problem;
Stanley’s melancholy chapters; effect of wine and beer; the white
man must not drink in Africa; must change and re-adapt his habits;
visions of the colonists; effect of climate; kind of dress to wear;
the best house to build; how to work and eat; when to travel;
absurdities of strangers; following native examples; true rules of
conduct; Stanley’s laws of health; African cold worse than African
heat; guarding against fatigue; Dr. Martins code of health; the
white man can live in Africa; future of the white races in the
tropics; the struggle of foreign powers; missionary struggles;
political and commercial outlook.
MISSIONARY WORK IN AFRICA, 565
Africa for the Christian; Mohammedan influences; Catholic missions;
traveler and missionary; the great revival following Stanley’s
discoveries; Livingstone’s work; perils of missionary life;
history of missionary effort; the Moors of the North; Abyssinian
Christians; west-coast missions; various missionary societies;
character of their work; Bishop Taylor’s wonderful work in Liberia,
on the Congo, in Angola; nature of his plans; self-supporting
churches; outline of his work; mission houses and farms; vivid
descriptions and interesting letters; cheering reports from
pioneers; South African missions; opening Bechuana-land; the
Moffats and Coillards; Livingstone and McKenzie; the Nyassa
missions; on Tanganyika; the Church in Uganda; murder of
Harrington; the gospel on the east coast; Arabs as enemies;
religious ideas of Africans; rites and superstitions; fetish and
devil worship; importance of the mission field; sowing the seed;
gathering the harvest.
AFRICA’S LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, 735
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