History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa [WHI Bleek's title: 'A Negro's History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa']

History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa [WHI Bleek's title: 'A Negro's History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa']

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Ink on paper [MS]

1872-1873

Rough draft 'A Negro's History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa'

Maquas (the Makua/Makhuwa people?), Manangyas (the Mang'anja people?), chiefs (Mang'anja chiefs, like Chibisa, met with the English), thief (one was found out by the Manganja chief), mission party (the English help the Mang'anja drive the 'Maquas' out of their country), Macmarrow (the site of the mission party's camp [Magomero?]), churchmen (high and low), huts (building them), lake (Lake Nyasa?), D. Livingstone (his arrival at Johanna [Anjouan, Comoros archipelago]?]), Pomony (Pomoni harbour, Anjouan), Shire River (it skirts the Shire Highlands plateau), slave raids (the Mang'anja were victims of), fish (the Mang'anja people catch them), Zambezie (preparations to leave for the), large sugar plantations ('employ eight hundred negroes' and send the sugar to Mauritius), English consul (where he lives [Christopher Palmer Rigby?]), slave dealers (their cruelty [the Yao?]), the mountain country, famine (threatening the faithful Makololo [Livingstone's 'native' followers])

Preliminary pages (page summaries/summary of events) by Dr Bleek and Lucy Lloyd for Charles Thomas's MS. David Livingstone is only recorded at Johanna/Anjouan