M H . E V N S . JO P IN E R . A D MR N S R G R COPYRIGHT. 1916. 13 M PRIN E R : JOHN . S G SE COND EDITION PRINTED BY THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN IS WRITTE N MAINLY IN THE FIRST P RSO SI U BUT SO I S I E N NG LAR , AL AT T ME N THE P UR I S B WI TI I L AL, AND T HA EEN T NGLY AND F T I L SO I C C S O IS WHO T NG Y N EA H A E . NE THERE FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS HA S SHARED WITH M MOS OU P JOUR E E AL T EVERY TH GHT, LAN, N Y, AND R S IP S S JOY RIC HA D H , A WELL A EVERY AND H DIVINE COMPANIONSHIP IN THE SERVICE HERE RE CORDED ; AND SO FULLY HAS HER LIFE FLOWED OUT IN A RARE SINGLENESS OF DEVOTION TO THE O K IC S C OS O S WI M A ND W R WH H HE H E T HARE TH E , O IC S SO IK P SO C T WH H HE FELT AL A L E ER NAL ALL, AND SO LARGE HAS B EEN HER PART IN THE PREP IO OF IS I S MUS BE ARAT N TH NARRAT VE , THAT HE T R COR S JOI U O O IS E DED A NT A TH R , AND THAT NE MY WIFE HE LEN EM ILY SPR INGER THE CONGO MISSION IS AN ANSWER TO PRAYER BY MANY INTERCESSORS MA Y THE PE RUSAL OF THIS NAR RATIVE INSPIRE MANY OTHE R S TO PRE VAILING PRAYE R FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE KINGDOM CONTENTS THE FIRST JOURNEY STRIKING THE TRAIL KALULUA To LUKOSHI . BUILDING AT LUKOSHI . D FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS A N ITINERATING . LANGUAGE KAF UCH I TO USUMB Y M O C PI M A WA MWATA A V , THE A TAL OF MWATA YAMVO AT MUSUM BA DnJom o c o o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TH ROUGH o o 0 0 D B A N o A EIJUGE OF ELGI S o o o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . SECOND SEASON A T THE E XODUS FROM KAMBOVE THE CONGO MISSION A BUN CH OF OUR BOYS AS TO THE FUTURE LI ST. OF I LLUSTRATIONS M EV S . JO . R . AND MR HN FRONTISPIECE FACING PAGE VILLAINOUS LOOKING 1 6 T IO RO D S S I - . 1 6 ON THE RACT N A , KAN AN H BAYA FOX I L T I IN S OOL LULU 2 6 B B E RA N G CH , KA A , A SITE CARVED OUT OF THE 42 MUSH ROOMS 8 8 JIM BAKING BERAD IN CAMP 8 8 R. M AND MRS . SPRINGER ON 88 D IS I 8 8 ENT TRY, AN INC DENTAL ’ MPERETE S VILLAGE AND 1 02 MWATA YAMVO IN MA CH ILLA 1 32 Y MVO E E I S I 3 MWATA A AT TH VEN NG ERV CE . 1 2 UKOS I S IO 1 91 2 2 08 L H TAT N , KA YE KA AND FAMILY 2 1 8 X L I L SH 1 91 3 1 FO I T I OO UKO I . 2 8 B B E RA N NG SCH , L , - - 2 CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY REACHES KAMBOVE . 3 2 V I N F E D P R F I 2 3 2 KAMBO E STAT O A T R E A TURE O TRA N . 246 D . D S PIPE R AN MR . R AT ’ YA M V 46 MISSION HOUSE AT MWATA O S . 2 MWATA YA M VO A ND A FEW OE HIS 2 46 2 62 ORE TRUCKS FROM STAR OF THE CONGO MINE . R 2 62 JACOB INTERPRETING AT AILWAY SERVICE . A SERVICE IN COMPOUND AT 262 MOTHER MILLER AND WOMEN 262 TH E ILL N IL IN S V ISSI H D U D O O . 266 A B G , KAMB E M N IS OP H ! ELL ND ISSIO OUP 1 91 5 . 2 66 B H ART A M N GR , 2 74 TH E VICTORIA FALLS . A BUNCH OF OUR 288 CH U C S 3 08 R H , TATE, ’ I IN S O S O U E C I O . 3 1 2 L V G T NE M N M NT , H TAMB MAP OF CENTRAL AFRICA 3 1 7 MAP OF CENTRAL AFRICA SHOWING PROTESTANT MIS SIGN S o o o o INTRODUCTI ON L B Y ! D . D. L . D B H P . T . IS O J C . HAR ELL, , H Afr a of T ERE is a new ic , and a part the of world, especially the commercial interests E r A r a u ope as well as of me ic , have fully awak ened to that fact . The great missionary ex plorer David Livingstone opened the path Afr a into and across Central ic , and reported to the world, highlands in the interior with di of salubrious climate, and with in cations of vast wealth gold, copper, and ivory, and the of possibilities unlimited water power, Where “ mighty rivers descended in magnificent falls , from the elevated watersheds and plateaus of f . A t r the interior e Livingstone, came other missionaries who confirmed and enlarged the report. Traders and prospectors followed in as di of incre ing numbers , until the scovery di of Joh a nnes amonds at Kimberley, gold at of burg, and gold and copper at various other of parts the continent, awakened the keen interest of Europe and led to more extended of explora tions . Then the industrial centers ix x INTRODUCTION t of of Great Bri ain, Germany, and Fra nce were looking for new markets for their prod ucts , and a continent of nearly people waiting to be clothed, appealed to the imagination . The last quarter of the past century wit nessed a great scramble for continental “ ” S pheres for trade in this great continent . — Then in 1 8 84 a t the Berlin conference there was a partition of nearly all of the of square miles Africa, among the powers of Europe ; an arrangement which con 1 91 4 tinned until the war of . Traders have pressed on into all parts, until it is the rare Village even in the remotest regions , where cloth from Birmingham, blankets from Ham burg, and beads from Vienna are not in evi dence . The governments have policed all parts and have caused the inter ’ tribal wars to cease ; have crushed out the inter - tribal m n slave tra e, a d are making great headway in the ultimate abolition of domestic slavery a everywhere . In a little more th n a brief quarter of a century has been witnessed the industrial and political occupation of pra c tically all of this vast continent. Christian missions originally led in this modern move e ment, but they have in these later years be n INTRODUCTI ON Xi left behind and tod ay more than half of the , — population of Africa more nearly three — fourths have never seen the missionary, and are without the privileges of the church a nd the school . But the line of missions h a s ever been slowly advancing, through the heroic faith and noble consecration of men and women called of G od . This narrative tells of a notable advance of a one missions in Afric , and any wishing to study the details of such progress will find of here a mine information . Re The v. and Mrs . John M . Springer have been missionaries to Africa for fourteen years . It has fallen to their lot to labor continually ’ in what the world rega rds as Livingstone s r of S IX country . Thei first period nearly years wa s spent in the gold - bearing region of Manica of 1 land, first spoken by Livingstone in 857 , and where, at Old Umtali, they Were in the of midst the gold belt from which , in all prob ability, gold was taken nearly three thousand years ago and shipped to Jerusalem in the of a nd l for ships Hiram So omon , the adorn of ment the great temple . Mr . and Mrs . of Springer are both pioneer families , and since their marriage in 1 905 have been one in l rare union of endeavor, devoted to exp oration xii INTRODUCTION of and missionary pioneering. Probably no other persons have touched Livingstone’s trail at so many and so widely separate points a s they. In their trip to the Zambesi River in 1 906 f , in exploring the district o which Mr . wa s Springer superintendent, they came on Livingstone’s trail along the Zambesi River K a bra ba sa above the Rapids , and followed it down that river four hundred miles to S h u a n a n Senna, near p g , where Mary Livi g ’ stone s body rests , her grave cared for by a Roma n Catholic Mission . Later that year they crossed his path at Victoria Falls , where were spent three days in contemplation of that 1 907 marvelous cataract . Then, in , on their long journey to the west coast, they started from Broken Hill , three hundred miles north of S esh eka east , where Livingstone started on his first great trip , and going northwest they continually approached Livingstone’s trail until they reached it near Lake Dilolo , and from there to the west coast for six hundred miles followed it approximately .