AFRICANA.
Reading edition
A. KING AND CO., PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
I—Frontis.
THE POSTMAN.
“Literature is likely to be an important means of elevating and purifying the native. All Africans, from the lad that writes his Grammar exercise to the postman that conveys a written message in a split wand, have a liking for kalata (letters).”—Vol. II., p. 261.
AFRICANA; OR, THE HEART OF HEATHEN AFRICA.
BY THE Rev. DUFF MACDONALD, M.A., B.D., LATE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MISSION, BLANTYRE, EAST CENTRAL AFRICA.
Vol. I.—NATIVE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS.
“The proper study of mankind is man.”
LONDON: SIMPKIN MARSHALL & CO. EDINBURGH: JOHN MENZIES & CO. ABERDEEN: A. BROWN & CO. 1882.
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TO H. H. M. THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE GREATEST TRIALS PATIENTLY ENDURED FOR THE GOOD OF AFRICA.