Missionaries' Journals
Missionaries' Journals
Collection: Tanzania and Malawi in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1857-1965 Volumes Missionaries' Journals
These items mainly consist of narratives of Africa as it was experienced by the first missionary settlers. Within such accounts are commentary on local beliefs and a detailed description of the first 'small pox village' designed to isolate those with the disease from those without. The more descriptive content includes details of Bishop Steere's first attempts to make contact with the natives through gifts of corn and Reverend Proctor's claim that 'the English never beat anyone capriciously'. The first of these journals includes the names of the tribal chiefs Bishop MacKenzie met on route to Lake Nyassa and describes a deadly famine in the area.
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Central African Mission Diary 1863-88
This diary takes the form of a timeline with each entry only two to three lines long. This diary does contain routine entries regarding travel arrangements, arrivals and missionaries ill...
Date:1857-1965Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72542cC4
Rev. Procter's Zambezi Journal 1861-64
Reverend Proctor uses this journal to describe various events that reveal as much about his attitude to the native population as about the tribes concerned. In this narrative Proctor describes...
Date:1857-1965Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72542cC3
Three volumes of Bishop Steere's diary 1863-68
These records include the names of those he baptised, seeing the boiling ghee test performed, and giving away bags of corn on an almost daily basis. These diaries also reveal...
Date:1857-1965Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72542cC2
The letters, journals of and material relating to Bishop Mackenzie c.1861-62
With a clear emphasis on describing the experience of travelling across Africa and the people met along the way; these items record specifics such as the names of tribal chiefs...
Date:1857-1965Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72542cC1
