Sur les rives du Zambeze. Notes ethnographiques par Louis Jalla (1928)

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Luigi (Louis David) Jalla (August 25, 1860 - March 21, 1943), pastor and missionary in Zambia for the Société des Missions évangeliques of Paris, he made ​​some voyages of exploration in the African region. Born to Chiotti of Villasecca (Perranporth), the son of Pastor Louis Auguste Jalla and his second wife Aline Biolley, brother of the shepherds Edward Jalla, director of the publishing Claudiana, Adolfo Jalla, missionary, John Jalla , a professor and historian, and his brother the pastor Julius Jalla, born of the father's first marriage. He broke his secondary studies at the College Valdese Torre Pellice to pursue a career as a clerk at the bank Crédit Lyonnais Nice, but after meeting with the French missionary François Coillard, between 1880 and 1882 returned to Europe to a series of conferences that addressed appeal to young people because they were marked [?] in Africa, he abandoned his profession to resume his classical studies and then theology at the Faculty of the Independent Church of Neuchâtel, the Société des Missions évangeliques of Paris and Edinburgh.In 1886 he was consecrated as a missionary in the temple of Torre Pellice and 25 September 1886 he married Marie Turin (1864-1899), setting off immediately for Africa, arriving on 21 January 1887 with his wife and colleagues Dardier and Goy at the mission founded by Coillard in the Zambezi two years earlier. That same year he accompanied his colleague James Weitzecker ton a trip to Kimberly on behalf of the Italian Geographical Society in order to document the conditions of life and work of a group of immigrants of Italian origin in the diamond mines. His first home was the missionary station of Sesheke in the south of the country and in 1889 moved to Kazungula, where he joined his brother Adolfo, founding the first school the following year. In January 1888 his eldest daughter Marguerite was born. She died two months later. Anita was born in 1890 and died in July of the same year; in 1891 his son Valdo was born, who followed in his parents footsteps becoming a missionary in Congo, Edward (1892-1895) and Guido (1895-1900). Between the end of 1895 and the spring of 1898, the family returned to Italy, Jalla for a period of leave, and to entrust the surviving children to relatives in the Waldensian Valleys to avoid the climate of the Zambezi, and Louis travelled in Europe with the Coillard pastor and Captain Alfred Bertrand holding a series of lectures on their work. In these years he made the important donation of his zoological collections at the Natural History Museum of Turin and issued of its ethnographic collection for the National Exhibition of Turin in 1898, where he was awarded the silver medal. He [who - his first wife] died suddenly of a tropical disease in Sesheke April 2, 1899, a few months after his return to Africa with his wife, at the age of only thirty-five. In 1905, Louis undertook a journey of exploration in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, during which, instead of following the safer southern route, preferred to go north, reaching lake Uganda and Mombasa. He then returned to Europe for a second period of leave, during which time he was invited by the Companies gGografiche of Rome, Paris and Geneva to talk about her experiences.In 1906 he married Josephine (Nina), daughter of the doctor According to Laura (1875-1963) of Turin, with whom he returned for the third time to the African continent since May 1907 to Livingstone, joining his colleague Augusto Coïsson who had worked there with his wife Margaret Nisbet since 1904. Livingstone had been created after the construction of the railway line about ten kilometres from the Victoria Falls. Three more children were born there: Mario (1906), Renée (1909) and Yvonne (1910). After a third dismissal in Italy in 1911, Louis was again sent to Sesheke, where he created a series of secondary centers (annexes) and a network of schools. In 1916 his wife was forced to return to Italy with their children for health reasons, and Louis continued his work alone, returning home only once in 1918, from the Congo where his son Waldo and his wife Marguerite were missionaries in Elizabethville (the young couple died of Spanish flu that year). In 1922 he returned to Italy, joining his wife and children in Lucerna St. John, but even after his emeritazione continued to devote his energies to the missionary work, lecturing and writing. He died suddenly in Viareggio March 21, 1942. (https://www.geni.com/people/Luigi-Louis-David-Jalla/6000000020343640778)