Among the Wild Ngoni, Being Some Chapters in the History of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1899. With Introduction by The Right Hon Lord Overtoun. Illustrated with 14 photographs. Crisp color 19" x 14" fold out map of central Africa. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial mustard colored cloth covered boards stamped in black and gold. Ink inscription at top of free front endpaper, otherwise fine condition. Item #1371
"Dr. Elmslie, who with his devoted wife has just sailed for Africa to begin his third term of service, vividly pictures the lofty plateau of Ngoniland, with its native villages and the dark background of vice and cruelty which lies behind the village life, with the horrors of the slave trade which harried peaceful homes, leaving the smoking ruins, while the inmates were massacred, or reserved for a more cruel fate, and how their perils drove the people to live in swamps or inaccessible rocks.
The first advance of the missionaries to Ngoniland was in 1878 in the face of much personal danger. The first interviews with Mombera and his bloodthirsty chiefs, picture not only the danger of the situation, but the faith, courage, and tact of the men who, taking their life in their hands, went as ambassadors of Christ to these bloodstained savages."
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