The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-04-21

starved and hnlf-clad officers and others. l
only hope that they found themselves, on
leaving this place. in greater bodily comfort
than they enjoyed when they arrived"
Stanley describes this meeting with Mackay
in the second volume of In Darkest Africa"
The mission was built on n stony slope, near a
marshy fat an inlet 20 Victoria Nyanza being
in sight Mackay was found "a gentleman OF
small stature, with rich. brown beard. ana
brown hair. dressed in white linen, and gray
Tyrolese hat The Improvements In sight
were evidence that Mackay WAS an incessant
worker. There was big, sohd workshop III
the yard. filed with machinery and tools; a
launchs boiler was being prepared by tho
blacksmith. big canoe was outside repairing;
there were w-pits aud largo lOgs OF hard
timber there were great stacks OF pallsade
poles i'm corner OF the outer yard was cat
t,c-told and goat-pen: fowls by the score
pcckcd at microscopic grains. and out OF the
European quarter there trooped q number ~
little rols and big BOYS, looking uncommonly
sleek and happy. and quiet labOrers came up
- bid Us with hats of. Good morning.
STANLEY was ushercd into clay structure
with walls two feet thick Missionary pictures
and pacards were on the walls. and many
shelves of books. Mackay. Stanley writes;
lAd no time 20 fret and eroan and weep and
God knows if ever man had reason
e. think of graves and worms and oblivion:
AMI 10 be d0lcful and lonely and SAD.
Aiuckay had when. after numbering his
Bishop and burning his pupils, and stranghne
his converts and clubbing 10 death his dark
friends MwJnca turned his eve of death on
lim. And vet the little man met 1t with calm
blue eve, that never wuked. To see one man
of this kind working day after day for twelve
years travolv. AID without q syllable OF com
piaint or moan. amid the wilderness. ana 10
hear him lead his little flock 10 show forth
Gods loving Kindness IN the morning, and
His faithfulnes- every night. Is worth going
long journey for the moral courage and con-
tcntinenl thGt one derives from IT. Five
month"; later Mackay died. Stanley had
strongly urged Nacknv to accompany HIM 10
tie coast but the devoted and fearless mis-
eiouary refused 10 leave what he considered a
post OF duty
Mackay says the people Of Uganda are not
savages nor even barbarians. They are neat
handed and susceptible TO teaching. The
universal food is green plantains boiled. The
country Is fertile. with cotton, maze. the
sweet potato. coffee and tobacco indigenous.
Iron and kaOlin are plentiful The waste OF
human life is frichtluL Tho Kings send
thousands 10 the cyccUtiOners, who slay by q
blow from club on the back OF the head.
Most of the victims suffer through the super
stitous notions Of their rulers. The people
must literally lick the dust IN the presence OF
royalty.
These letters 10y Mackay. stretching over
fourteen years are q literary find. II the
missionary had been "a boOkluaker aud his ed
itor skilled IN the use If material. he would
stand at the head Of recent writers on Africa.
As u u.s. tins oTdiuary-looklng volume Is a
mine of knowledge based Oh long experience.
Mackay wa hut forty when he died.-A. G..
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