Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors During an Eighteen Years Residence in Eastern Africa

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Excerpt from Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors During an Eighteen Years Residence in Eastern Africa: Together With Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum, and a Coasting Voyage From Mombaz to Cape Delgado The name of the Rev. Dr. Krapf has long been before the public in honorable connection with the attempts to introduce civilization and Christianity into the benighted continent of Africa, no less than as a pioneer of important geographical discoveries, and a most successful laborer in the field of Hametic philology. His earlier missionary labors were printed in 1843, and related chiefly to Abessinia and Shoa. The present volume, although also touching upon both, is chiefly confined to the terra incognita of our maps, the Eastern coast and the equatoral sections of Africa, the land of his boyish aspirations, as we glean from the interesting autobiographical memoir which forms its first chapter. The Appendix gives details of languages, hitherto but oral, which he and his colleagues at Rabbai Mpia have reduced to form and writing, and thus brought within the scope of future missionary efforts for the conversion of the heathen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.