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Title: An African trail
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon, 1874-1936 Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions
Subjects: Bulu (African people) Missions
Publisher: West Medford, Mass., The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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uth-westand South Africa, than they realized they were dealing with asingle-language family; whether they surveyed Zanzibar, theKamerun, Angola, Mozambique, Eastern Cape Colony or Natal.And when at a later date, Portuguese and British explorers beganto cross Africa from one side to the other, it was evident that thesimilarity of speech extended right across this Southern thirdof the continent. —Sir H. H. Johnston, The Opening-up of Africa, p. 131.Henry Holt. A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENT ON THE SOUTH AFRICANOthers will say that the natives are savages and cannibals, andthat no good is to be expected from them, but that we must bealways on our guard; this, however, is only a popular error as thecontrary shall be fully shown. We, of the said Ship Haarlem,testify wholly to the contrary, for the natives, after we had lainthese five months (still) came daily with perfect amity to thefort which we had thrown up for our defence, in order to trade,and brought cattle and sheep in quantities.
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THE BULU 73 By maintaining a good correspondence with them, we shallbe able to employ some of their children as boys and servants,and educate them in the Christian Religion, by which means if itpleases God Almighty to bless this good cause, as at Tayouan andFormosa, many souls will be brought to God and to the ChristianReformed Religion, so that the formation of the said fort andgarden will not only tend to the gain and profit of the HonorableCompany, but to the preservation and the saving of many menslives, and what is more, to the magnifying of Gods Holy Name,and to the propagation of His Gospel. —Quoted from a document of the Dutch East India Com-pany, by J. du Plessis, A History of Christian Missionsin South Africa, p. 20, Longmans & Co. POLYGAMY AMONG THE NGONI One of the greatest social and moral evils among the tribe ispolygamy. The evils are seen among all classes, for, as the tribeexisted by raiding other tribes, all who could bear arms mightpossess themselves of captiv

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