Author: Ellen Maples

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781330307199

Excerpt from Journals and Papers of Chauncy Maples, D.D., F. R. G. S : Late Bishop of Likoma, Lake Nyasa, Africa Herewith I redeem the promise made in the preface to my brother's Life and Letters that I would publish some of his journals and papers. This collection is rather varied in character, but it is all united by the one word - Africa - the land of his adoption, the land of his life's work. My grateful thanks are due to Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot, to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, and to Mr. F. Vaughan Kirby for their valuable help in revising the zoological notes; also to the Rev. Duncan Travers, secretary of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, for his permission to reprint those papers which have already appeared in the publications of that mission; and to the secretaries of the Royal Geographical Society and the Manchester Geographical Society for according me the same permission with regard to articles from their journals. And, lastly, I wish to thank cordially Miss Woodward, of the Universities' Mission, for her kind help in translating Swahili and other African words, and my brother-in-law Mr. Charles Medd, who has not only given me valuable advice but has also prepared the index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.