African fever and the culture of the blue gum-tree to counteract malaria in Italy / compiled by John Croumbie Brown.

  • Brown, John Croumbie.
Date:
1890
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Credit: African fever and the culture of the blue gum-tree to counteract malaria in Italy / compiled by John Croumbie Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    and contrasted it with her husband's tomb in Westminster Abbey, ]' thought perhaps the woman's love which brought her to a spot like this, might be not less worthy of immortality.' Take yet another sketch—' Our next stoppage was to pay another homage—truly this is a tragic region—at another white man's grave. A few years ago, Bishop M'Kenzie and some other missionaries were sent to Africa by the English Universities, with instructions to try to establish a mission in the footsteps of Livingstone. They came here ; the climate overpowered them ; one by one they sickened and died. With the death of the Bishop himself the site was abandoned, and the few survivors returned home. Among the hippopotamus trampled reeds on the banks of the Shire, under the rough iron cross, lies the first of three brave Bishops who have already made their graves in Equatorial Africa.' If we go again to the sacred spot, the grave of Mrs. Livingstone, we find that there have been deposited there the remains of yet another victim. In the Report of the committee for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 188§, in the account of missionaries who had sailed in the course of the previous year for East Africa, it is stated—' The first and larger missionary party reached Quilimane on 2.5th April. Before leaving this country they were assured that the new steamer of the African Lakes Company would be ready for them on their arrival. It was not ready; and after a detention of ten days they proceeded up the Kwakwa, to make the ascent of the Zambesi, in ihe old steamer, the Lady Nya&sa. But the old steamer quickly broke down, and they were stranded for weeks at Yicenti, on the Zambesi, near the confluence of the Shire with the Zambesi, in a low and unhealth}'- country. 'Mrs. M'llwain had been married only two months