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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 4TH, 1913.

MISSIONARY'S EXPERIENCES IN

HEART OF AFRICA.

BELOTAN'S TIN SWORD.

In St. Lawrence's ITall, Edgware, Mr. Daniel Crawford, the well-known Scottish unissionary, told a delighted audience the story of a small part of his 23 years of life, without a break, in the heart of Africa. One illuminating little thing which showed how long he had been away was that he addressed his audiencs as "You Londoners, and, as everybody knows, nothing could be further from London than the peaceful village, of Edgware.

Mr. Crawford's lecture was called. First in the Footsteps of Livingstone, and he is the one white man who knows the people who know Livingstone. He had never spoken to Livingstone himself, but in the heart of the African forests he has met many old blacks who knew the great man, and whose reverence for him and his work is as great as is Mr. Crew- ford'e. They had all sorts of names for him. He who hath no toes" being one,

and He who sleeps on the waves" being

The longer a dentifrice prevents fermentation and decomposition processes in the mouth after the rinsing of the mouth has been finished, the better the dentifrice. In permanent efficacy all pre-graphy, he was always busy about lakes parations for the teeth are surpassed by Odol..

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another; the first because Livingston wore boats and the second because, in his desire to add to the world's store of geo-

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speaks the native languages perfectly, showed that there is a good deal more intellect about the savage than wo give him credit for. His system of etiquette Mr. Crawford, described es fino and complicated.

is wonderfully

It was Mr. Crawford, who throughout his 23 years in Africa was accompanied by his wife, who held the service to the missionary explorer under the tree at the foot of which Livingstone's heart is buried

the real Livingstono memorial ser. It is interesting to know that the vice, when Westminister Abbey seemed

bronze memorial tablet sent out by the a long way off. There the black people Royal Geographical Society to mark the Par Kwongsung, from Swatow, Capt. of the plain and forest who knew Living tres beneath which Livingstone died (and Everett, Masters White and Sterling.

stone gathered in thousands while Mrs. Fer Derfinger, for Hongkong, from Crawford made music on a box that which his faithful "boy" had already Shanghai, Mr. R. J. Tobin, Mr. Knaak, squeaked when it touched the ground." carved an epitaph) was stolen by an Arab, Mr. N. L. Fischer, Mr. J. Jansen, Mr.us the natives described her portable who broke it up-to make bullets i B. Rosenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Gensburger harmonium. The lecturer read extracts | Livingstone's black children did not like and 2 children, Mr. and Mrs. Graham, from what he wrote at the time in his this, and within twelvo days the Arab Mr. N. Schimidt, Mr. D. Hacs, Inspector diary, and seemed to bring the whole had died.

scene, far from the centre of Africa, Klafcha, Inspector Beilker and Mr. A. Kkrger.

to the little pitch-pine building in the village of Edgware. And he gave the Per Print Waldemar, for Hongkong, native song that was chanted at the time from Sydney, Mr. and Mrs, de Hons, a Tell me, oh, tell me, where are you ali Mr. J. D. Frost, Mr. and Mrs. H. C

The country is Blaney, Dr. and Mrs. Schwartz, Mr. going to emigrate to i

retten.

The country is done for. Max Pohl, Miss Freda Ardea; from Brisbane, Dr. Muller; from Rabaul, Mr this day, an elephant is dead of a spear E. Grundler, Capt. Nauer, Mr. and Mrs.wound (Livingstone's dysentery). Hopp, Bruder Fridolin Dohm, Bruder lovely one is gone."

Heinrich Joston, Bruder Heinrich Tidden, Mr. Hoppe, Mr. Dornfeld, Mr. Wenzel; from Friedr. W'hafon, Mr. Otta Boyer; from Angaur, Mr. Bier from Yap, Mr. Reiss; from Manila, and Miss Archer, Mr. G. Archer, Mr -N. Porter and Miss L. Lace.

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HIGH WATER.

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1068

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NATIVE LIFE AND IDEALS. But, interesting as were Mr. Crawford's invaluable additions to what bas up-to- now been the slendorost knowledge of Livingstone's life in the heart of Africa, they paled before his amazingly vivid Ho drow & marvellously graphic, pieturo of ndurbar" held by the Belgian com- wandent of a wide district. Mr. Craw- ford can converse fluently in the dialects of the natives. The commandant did not know a word. So, ns he was after all the representative of law and order in that! district, he decided on the durbar, and asked Mr. Crawford-who exercised a great influence with the natives-to tell

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January 28th-Benalder, Calchas, Ernest Simons, Indrasamka, Peilo, P. E. Fried rick, Welsh Prince, Alesia Annam. 31st Denbighshire, Lama Meru, Kilano Maru, then what a fine chap he was. The natives N FURNISHED, or Pour Mothe Kicist, Nera, Ningchow, Sachsen, Egre came in thousands. The durhar was held, mont Castle. February 4th Idomeneus," with all the kings ranged in their order Laertes, Ellerie 7th-Keemun, Nyanza, of precedence, just like people at a Man- Peleus Demodocus, Sumatra. 7th Desion House dinner," and above them all Jayed through Mutilation.-Den of the Emperor, a real Emperor, with a Glamis, Amazone, 11th -- Benarty. territory thru the the commandant,SHOP in ALANDRA Ruildinos

There at land." Brasilia, Ghazet, Indrani, Nippon, Scandia, Spezia, Schuylkill, Forek, real nut (Mr. Crawford has soon learned Swazi. 14th-Aki Maru, Koerber, Prins things in England), with his thirty-franc 18th tin sword, and not looking a bit like a Ludwig, Sambia, Atlantique. Baron Napier, China, Glenlochy, Hyson, cab-driver from Brussels," which was how Igo Maru, Konang 81, Neleus 21st he probably began life before he decided Dumbra, Nore, Polyphemus, Theseus, it was hetter to leave his country. Novara. £5th Benavon, Jason, Kasenga, Monmouthshire, Teenkas, Armenia, 28th -Alcinous, Ernest Simone, Hirans Mare, Indien, Japan, Mishima Brodetone, Prinzess Alice, Maru, Sithonia, Furst Bulow, therus.

Mr. Crawford passed on, with interest, all the good things that the commandant And was it fancy or Gochen, said of himself,

did the Emperor wink At any rate, the Emperor, as is the African way, replied in parable, the upshot of which was that in spite of Mr. Crawford's description of himself as zero to the commandant's boil. ing point, the Emperor, speaking for his followers, pinned their faith to the shrew mouse (Mr. Crawford), and not to the elephant (the brave commandant). the African mind the widest difference | that can be expressed is always by com- paring the smallest mammal of the African continent with the largest.

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Mr. Crawford was very hard on the swashbuckling! type of explorer who argue with a revolver, and is all in favour of the man with the walking stick, aa Livingstone was He continually brought in the great reverence with which Livingstone's name is still regarded among the children of Africa. To them he was the type of Englishman (Ingeras," as they called him), and they will have по other. And Mr. Crawford, who

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