GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION AND CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISE. •BOD BY A. GRUAR FORBES, AUTHOR OF "PIONEERS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN MANY LANDS ETC. ETC. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, AND SEARLE A general view of Africa has been deemed important, in order to the obtaining of fair impressions in respect to the work of individual travellers; and when detailed accounts of separate journeys are given, the reports of those who performed them have been carefully consulted without partiality or unjust bias. The personal adventures and experiences of individuals are not professed to be fully given. For these their own books must be read, which it is hoped they will be by those who have the opportunity. The present work will realise its purpose if it enable the reader to justly estimate the noble work of noble men, of whom their fellow-men may be honestly proud as of those who have gone into the midst of a mass of needy humanity, and returned to tell what they found, or who have stayed behind to perform their life's work among the degraded and the perishing. The way will thus be prepared, moreover, for a more intelligent perusal of those accounts of travel and work in Africa which we may expect to be forthcoming in the approaching future. |