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Title: Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of great travelers in southern climes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: (Feather, A. G.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co

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or andlove which animated Livingstone when he spoke ofSekeletu. Had he seen Mtesa, his ardor and love forhim had been tenfold, and his pen would have beenemployed in calling all men to assist him, writes Stan-ley of this remarkable prince and ruler. On the 15th of April, Stanley returned to Usavara,after having spent a fifteen days life at the EmperorsCourt at Rubaga. The following extract of a letter, under date ofApril 14th, 1875, written and sent to the Daily Tele-graph and New York Herald from this point, is astrong appeal for the establishment of a ChristianMission in Uganda: I have, indeed, undermined Islamism so much herethat Mtesa has determined henceforth, until he is bet-ter informed, to observe the Christian Sabbath as wellas the Moslem Sabbath, and the great captains haveunanimously consented to this. He has further causedthe Ten Commandments of Moses to be written on aboard for his daily perusal—for Mtesa can read Arabic—as well as the Lords Prayer and the golden com-
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THROUGH THE WILDS OF AFRICA. 381 mandment of our Saviour, * Thou shalt love thy neigh-bor as thyself. This is great progress for the fewdays that I have remained with him; and though I amno missionary, I shall begin to think that I might be-come one if such success is feasible. But, oh! thatsome pious, practical missionary would come here!What a field and harvest ripe for the sickle of Civiliza-tion ! Mtesa would give him anything he desired—houses, lands, cattle, ivory, etc. He might call a prov-ince his own in one day. It is not the mere preacher,however, that is wanted here. The bishops of GreatBritain collected, with all the classic youth of Oxfordand Cambridge, would effect nothing by mere talk withthe intelligent people of Uganda. It is the practicalChristian tutor, who can teach people how to becomeChristians, cure their diseases, construct dwellings, un-derstand and exemplify agriculture, and turn his handto anything, like a sailor—this is the man who iswanted. Such an one

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