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By Robert Moffat

ISBN-10: 0511695640

ISBN-13: 9780511695643

ISBN-10: 1108007945

ISBN-13: 9781108007948

Robert Moffat, Scottish missionary and linguist, arrived in South Africa in 1817 lower than the aegis of the London Missionary Society. He pioneered missionary task one of the Tswana humans and have become deeply influential in South Africa, assisting to open up the 'missionary street' north of the Cape and later criticising the Afrikaners and changing into an recommend of British imperial rule within the zone. He was once additionally the 1st 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 comprises, as he states within the preface, a 'faithful checklist of occasions that have happened in the diversity of his event and remark' that 'supplies a lot that could serve to demonstrate the ordinary attributes of African society.' Missionary Labours was once highly well-liked by the Victorian readership and have become a vintage narrative of missionary job in Africa.

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What a remarkable display have we here of the faithfulness and mercy of God, in preserving the seed sown by Schmidt in a most ungenial soil, and left to vegetate in an aspect the most forbidding, for such a length of time! Who can doubt the Divine assurance, " My word shall not return unto me void ? " On the 31st of March, in the year 1799, Dr. Vanderkemp, accompanied by Messrs. Kicherer and Edmonds, landed at Cape Town, then in the possession of the Dutch. Dr. V. selected Kafir-land as the field of his operations, while Mr.

That they descended from Hottentots, requires little argument to prove. Probably there are connected with all the tribes of Africa numbers of a nomadic character, 8 BECHUANA BUSHMEN. whose origin will throw light on the history of the Bushmen. A parallel is furnished by the following facts of the case, which have hundreds of times come under my own observation, during a residence of more than twenty years among the Bechuana tribes. Connected with each of the towns among that people, there are great numbers of what are called " Balala," poor ones, who stand in the same relation to the Bechuanas in which the Bushmen formerly stood to the Hottentots, and whose origin doubtless was of the same nature.

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