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Synopsis
My career as an African missionary, interrupted by a short sojourn in Europe and another in I ndia, be m1877 on the eastern coast I brought with me all the current ideas as to the black populations: fetichist peoples, without religion or morality, with no family life, stupidly adoring animals, trees, and stones. It was the period when by the gate of the Zanzibar coast their mysterious continent was opened, with Livingstone, Samuel Baker, Speke, Grant, Cameron, Stanley, Emin-P acha, and Victor Giraud as the first explorers of the International African A ssociation, and the heroic pioneers of the Catholic and Protestant missions. All set out from Bagamoyo or passed through it. There also, from the distant interior, caravans arrived daily after the rainy season with 500, 1000, or 2000 men. These brought to the coast ivory, copal, skins, and slaves, especially the last named, showing the attentive observer such varied types of that strange world, that on this shore, so little known to the white man, in the course of a year he might see filing before him representatives of all theB antu tribes, from theB a-ganda of the Victoria Nyanza to theW a-yao of theN yassa, theM a-nywema of Upper Congo, and the distant inhabitants of Katanga. Bagamoyo was, therefore, an incomparable field of observation. Moreover, until 1893 the functions entrusted to me obliged me to make numerous journeys with more or less prolonged sojourns from Somaliland toM ozambique, from the Tana to the superb masses of the Kilimanjaro, from the islands of Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mombasa to theM assai plains and the interesting mountains ofT aita, Pare, Nguru, Usambara, and Uruguru.
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Negro Universities Press, 1969
ISBN 10: 0837114004
ISBN 13: 9780837114002
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