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Excerpt from Thirty Years in Nyasaland The first missionary chosen to begin the work was C. F. Mackenzie, of Caius College, Cambridge, who was consecrated as Missionary Bishop to the tribes round Lake Nyasa and along the Shire River on the Ist of January, 1861. The Bishop with a party of three priests and three laymen attempted at once to reach the diocese by the Zambezi route they got to Magomero and some work of much promise was begun, but before the end of the year slave-raiding, and tribal war generally, made any settled work impossible. Early in the next year, 1862, the Bishop went to Chiromo to meet some new workers; various accidents happened, including a canoe upset and the loss of all medicines. Shortly after the Bishop got fever and died on January 31. The work of that year (the first organized missionary work in the country) is represented by the graves at Magomero and Chiromo, and the first native Christians of Nyasaland date from it. One child who died was certainly baptized, and another (anne Daoma) who was first taught by Bishop Mackenzie is still alive and is working as a Christian teacher in Cape Town. A memorial church dedicated to St. Paul was built at Chiromo in 1907, and in 1921 it was re-erected at Blantyre, since the township of Chiromo has ceased to exist. The grave of Bishop Mackenzie near the junction of the Ruo and Shire rivers is well kept and cared for. 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."