In German Gaols: A Narrative of Two Years Captivity in German East Africa (Classic Reprint)

Ernest Frederick Spanton

ISBN 10: 1330195337 / ISBN 13: 9781330195338

Published by Forgotten Books, 2020

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164 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.35 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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• Title: In German Gaols: A Narrative of Two Years Captivity in German East Africa (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330195337
• ISBN 13: 9781330195338
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.23 kilograms

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Excerpt from In German Gaols: A Narrative of Two Years Captivity in German East Africa

The Secretary of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa has asked me to compose a Prefatory Note to the experiences and arguments that follow. I imagine he has done so remembering how closely I have been connected as friend and neighbour with the missionaries of the Mission founded in 1857 by Dr. Livingstone.

My relations with the U.M.C.A. in East Africa began early in 1884, when I was preparing in Zanzibar for my expedition to Kilimanjaro. I had heard much of this Mission from Stanley on the Congo in the two previous years. In order that I might acquire enough knowledge of Swahili to get on with my Zanzibari porters on the Congo, Stanley had lent me Bishop Steere's handbooks. I arrived, therefore, at Zanzibar in the spring of 1884 able to speak Swahili to some extent, and, further, to appreciate the immense additions to our knowledge of the Bantu languages already contributed by Bishop Steere (who died in 1882) and other members of the U.M.C.A. After a long stay in Nigeria and the Cameroons, I found myself back in East Africa in 1889, and once more in touch with the Universities' Mission.

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