2 volume set. First edition.
Publishers decorative cloth with gilt and black title and vignette on cover.
Gilt and black title and vignette on spine.
Rough-cut page edges. Decorative endpapers.
Binders label on inside, Jackson's Works, Aberdeen.
Presumable the printers were A. Brown & Co, Aberdeen.
Volume one contains chapters on material culture, arts,
religion, laws, language, etc while volume two contains
short histories and accounts of travel and the author's travel
and life at Blantyre.
Volume I. Native Customs and Beliefs.
xvi, [i], 301 pages + frontispiece with tissue-guard.
Full-page plates with tissue-guards + in-text illustrations.
Volume II. Mission Life.
ix, [i], 371 pages
Full-page plates with tissue-guards + in-text illustrations.
The Blantyre Mission was founded in October 1876 by the
Established Church of Scotland, and named after the small
village in which David Livingstone was born. Under its first
leader, Rev. Duff Macdonald, the Blantyre Mission ruled over
the surrounding hills with a despotic cruelty, flogging and
killing suspected thieves and murderers without even the
pretence of a trial. The behaviour of the early Blantyre
missionaries caused a scandal in the British press, forcing
many of them to retire, and Macdonald to be replaced by
Clement Scott in 1881.
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