The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
ON THE DARK CONTINENT.
Noble Work Being Done by
the Missionaries in
Africa.
TOLD IN A. J. PIXIES LETTER
Few People Here, He Says, Have
an Idea of the Religious Labor
Performed.
ALAMEDA, August %. 1895.

Charles N. Shortradge Esq, editor and
proprietor of 1.-THE CdW'-DEAR SIR: In
closed find manuscript copy, in part, of an
exceedingly interesting letter from Ozark
est Africa" which I received yesterday.
Mr.. Pike is Church of England mission
airy in that "desert land" and his letter
shows the rapid inroads civilization is
making in that mighty continent among a
people hitherto debarred from intellectual
light. Hoping you can run" it, Iremain,
respectfully, c. R. B.
UGANDA, Easter Monday, 1895.
We got to Nassa 18th of January. We
left there on February and got here on
February %. Your letter is dated 1st of
November. On that day we had our first
experience of being out in an African rain !;
after longer march than usual we
decided to camp at an open space in the
two hours we tried to shelter ourselves
| under trees, but it was no use and we got
thoroughly drenched. But / have not
time to write all about the march.
We all had good health till very near our
journeys end. One of the party, indeed.
was never well, but never really i'll, and
we all thought he suffered more from ner-
vous fancies than anything else. Lloyd
fell i'll with fever in the first week in jan
uary but he was not very i'll and able to
ride each day. | was beginning to be anx-
ious about him when fell i'll, too Fever
came on when l was one day from Nera;
at that place we were met by Gordon (who
had come down from Uganda) and Nickis-
son, who is at Nassa. l walked every step
of the way from the coast to Nera, and had
the very best health possible. | often
think that our illnesses after that were
sent to us to make us more thankful for
the perils we had escaped from. If Lloyd
had fallen i'll earlier in the march fear he
must have died, and my own chance would
have been poor one, too.
We stayed two days at Nera. and Nick
isson nursed both Lloyd and myself most
carefully, and on the third day we went
on. For the first time / rode donkey.
but Lloyd was not well enough for that
and had to be carried in a hammock.
From Nera to Nassa the journey occupied
i've days OF an average of five hours each.
You may be sure that / was not very bad
when was able to ride donkey some
fifteen or twenty miles a day. l did not
feel very Ill. L was upset internally and
my mouth was continually parched.
| carried plentiful supply of cold tea and
had to moisten my mouth at least every
hye minutes, and could eat no solid food.
w hen we got to Nassa Hubbard took me
into his house and Nickisson took Lloyd to
MS. L may just mention that Lloyd got
up loo soon and had touch of pleurisy,
and at the same time suffered from boils.
He was so i'll that we had TO leave him at
Nassa with Blockledge to come on later.
They got here fortnight after us and in
robust health. If ever the Rev. E. III.
Hubbard comes in your way be very kind
to him for my sake, for he nursed me as
think no man ever nursed another.
AS soon as got to Nassa / was sent to
bed to get rio of the fever, for they told
me afterward that my temperature was
very high. Before quite recovered from
fever got rheumatism in my hip and was
quite helpless. 1t was then Hubbard's
kindness came; out, the fever and the