[In our last issue was an article from one of our missionaries, Prof. Joel Rogers, entitled “A Trip Among the Angoni Tribes of Nyasaland.” For lack of space, we were compelled to omit two paragraphs and two illustrations which we are sure will be of interest to our readers, and we therefore give them below.]
The Building of our new Malamulo School
An Outschool, Nyasaland
FROM the Zambezi Industrial Mission I made a day’s journey by native paths up a mountainside to the plateau of Central Angoniland. This took me across the Portuguese boundary, where there are supposed to be civilized roads and government, but where one finds neither. Until the present year no permanent mission work has been permitted in Portuguese Central Africa. The D. R. Mission is just opening a station there. May it not be that other missionaries will prepare the way for this message? Is it not probable that some of these missionaries themselves will receive the message and give it to their converts? In one of the stations which I visited, a young woman whose parents accepted the truth in Europe, is now working, and the truth has also a firm hold upon her heart. At this station there is one village school with six or seven hundred native children. This is probably the most thickly populated portion of Nyasaland.
Mvera is the head station of the D. R. Mission. Being only twenty miles from Lake Nyasa and on a commanding hill, one has a fine view of the lake from this station. I spent three days here endeavoring to gather information that would be useful in our own mission. The mission is well known for its industrial features, particularly in carpentry and basketwork. Every courtesy was shown me, and opportunity given for seeing every department. These missionaries have been twenty years in the country, and have nine stations with European workers, and nearly thirty thousand pupils in all their schools. After my few days’ stay at this mission, I felt well repaid for the time and effort to reach it.
