Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
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USDRobert Moffat, Scottish missionary and linguist, arrived in South Africa in 1817 under the aegis of the London Missionary Society. He pioneered missionary activity among the Tswana people and became deeply influential in South Africa, helping to open up the 'missionary road' north of the Cape and later criticising the Afrikaners and becoming an advocate of British imperial rule in the region. He was also the first transcriber of the Setswana language. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of Moffat's time as a missionary and contains, as he states in the preface, a 'faithful record of events which have occurred within the range of his experience and observation' that 'supplies much that may serve to illustrate the peculiar attributes of African society.' Missionary Labours was hugely popular with the Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa.
Product details
February 2010Paperback
9781108007948
668 pages
216 × 37 × 140 mm
0.84kg
21 b/w illus. 1 colour illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- 1. General view of the state of Africa
- 2. First mission to South Africa
- 3. Dr. Vanderkemp's mission commenced among the HOTTENTOTS
- 4. Bushmen apply for teachers
- 5. Geographical position of Namaqua-land
- 6. Missionaries settle at Warm Bath
- 7. The Rev. J. Campbell writes to Africaner
- 8. The author arrives at Africaner's kraal
- 9. Projected journey
- 10. Return homeward
- 11. Journey to Griqua country
- 12. Journey to Cape Town
- 13. Mission to the Griquas
- 14. Retrospective view
- 15. Mr. Reed succeeds in obtaining consent
- 16. Difficulties on entering on a mission
- 17. Works of creation insufficient
- 18. Indifference to instruction
- 19. Influence of rain-makers
- 20. Prospects become darker
- 21. Reports of the Mantatees
- 22. The Griquas arrive
- 23. Removal of the station proposed
- 24. The natives and the compass
- 25. [not present in original publication]
- 26. State of the public mind
- 27. Visit to the Barolongs
- 28. Change of prospects
- 29. Delightful change
- 30. Moselekatse's ambassadors
- 31. The author's stay prolonged
- 32. The progress of civilisation
- 33. A journey for timber
- 34. The Basuto mission.
