page_title: Jacob Wainwright
section_title: Later life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Jacob Wainwright / Later life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: stanleywhitehero00kels (find matches) Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. Year: 1890 (1890s) Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp Subjects: Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel &amp; company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ir chiefs. Finding it impossible lo keep the secret from Chitambo,whose superstition they had dreaded, they were agreeably sur-prised when the chief made no objections to their preparingthe body by a rude sort of embalming and taking it to Zanzi-bar. The burial service of the English church was read byJacob Wainwright, and for fourteen days this process of pre-paring the body continued. Then, they wrapped it in muslin,and stripping from a myonga tree a large piece of bark, madea cylinder of it, in which the body was placed, and which wascovered with a piece of sail-cloth and lashed securely to a pole, ilVlNGSTONE^S LAST JOURJ^EY. 409 go as to be carried by two men. Jacob AYainwright, at the re-quest of Susi and Chuma, who seem to have forgotten noth-ing, carved an inscription on a large mvula tree which stoodnear the hut where the body rested; they also erected twohigh, thick posts, with a heavy cross-piece, like a lintel anddoor-posts in form, w^hich they painted thoroughly with tar. Text Appearing After Image: Susi and Chuma. The homeward march was then begun; but they were soaffected by the hardships which they had previously under-gone, that on the third day after setting out they were obliged 410 LIVINGSTONE^S LAST JOURNEY. to halt; half their number were positively unable to go on.It was nearly three weeks before they were able to proceed.Then, fortunately, the rains were over, so that there was lessdanger of sickness. With the events of this journey, we have nothing to do, sofar as they relate to the adventures of the men themselves.It was weeks after their starting that they learned from anArab caravan that the news of their masters death had alreadybeen reported in Unyanyembe. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Jacob Wainwright was a Black African man who worked as an attendant for the explorer David Livingstone.
context_section_description: Following Livingstone's death Wainwright stayed in England at Kessingland, Suffolk and travelled across the country addressing meetings of the Church Missionary Society. On 18 August 1874, he went to teach freed slaves at Kisulidini, near Mombasa. He was dismissed from this job in 1876. There are also accounts of Wainwright teaching at a school at Frere Town, a settlement for freed slaves north of Mombasa.
  By 1879, Wainwright was working as a door-porter in Zanzibar, following his dismissal from his previous position as a result of "impudent and forward" behaviour. In 1881 he was hired as interpreter, teacher and personal servant by the missionary Philip O'Flaherty. They travelled to Lubaga (Rubaga) together, where Wainwright was hired by Muteesa I of Buganda. In 1884, Wainwright joined a mission led by Edward C. Hore and in the late 1880s he joined the London Missionary Society mission in Urambo District, German East Africa (modern Tanzania) where he translated hymns and passages of scripture. 
  Wainwright died at the Urambo Mission in April 1892  as a result of burns and scalds from falling onto a fire and upturning a pot of water. He was buried near his hut, his grave marked by a borassus palm until in 1931 the Moravian Church, Salem, North Carolina, USA presented a metal tablet to be laid at his grave.
caption: Wainwright's companions, Susi and Chuma (from Stanley and the White Heroes in Africa, 1890)
exif: {}