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Excerpt from In the Heart of Savagedom: Reminiscences of Life and Adventure During a Quarter of a Century of Pioneering Missionary Labours in the Wilds of East Equatorial Africa
Piles of folios which might be of absorbing interest to many readers had to be laid aside, inasmuch as they were too heavily weighted with maternal cares and the multitudinous annoyances and vexations which surge about the life of the pioneering Missionary, and hence would not be of the same public importance as the more prominent outline of events here recorded.
Many of the manuscripts were hastily inscribed in disjointed sentences, as if life were full of battle and duties urgently pressing while others gave evidence of being penned under circumstances of great privation and imminent peril. Some of the notes were full of peaceful 'praise and hopeful expectation, but on a few there were real tear-marks, which registered the depths of sorrow and heart-strain under which they were written. At times there were long breaks intervening, which indicated periods of fever, prolonged convalescence and weary anxiety over the illness of others, who were lying on the verge of the grave. All of the papers were be smeared with the pale yellow and reddish-tinged ochre of the jungle.
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