Thrice through the Dark Continent. By J. Du Pbssis. (Longman
and Co. 14s. net.)—Professor Du Pleads, of the Dutch Reformed Seminary at Stellenbosch, made an extended tour of the Central African mission-field in 1013-16, covering a distance of seventeen thousand miles in twenty-six months. He started from the Gold Coast and travelled through. the Cameroon, Nigeria, French Congo, and the Congo State to Lake Albert, and thence through East Africa to Mombasa. He then returned by a more southerly route to the Congo, using is new military track west of the Belgian frontier, which proved to be the most difficalt part of his journey. Arrived at the Congo estuary, he went up the river, and then eouthward to Hatanga, across Rhodesia and Nyasaland to Beira, and homeward to Cape Town by rail. The author says little of politics or the war, but describes the country and the natives in a fresh and interesting way. His tribute to the Protestant missionaries on the Congo is particularly enthusiastic. He calls attention to the need for more Missions in Eastern Nigeria. In Nyasaland, besides the famou
Scottish church at Blantyre, he notices a church at London which will hold two thousand live hundred inept.: and yet is eon-minims overcrowded.
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