This is the final post in my little series of posting letters from the SOAS archives that pertain to the London Missionary Society extending their Central African Mission to the Bemba (I have more letters on other topics, don’t worry). The LMS had made some exploratory forays into the area and earlier in 1900 had … Continue reading LMS in Bembaland VI→| Pat in the World
Alright people, don’t worry, we’re getting to the end of the list of things I took photos of in the SOAS archives and now want to put online. The letter in the last post was an unofficial letter fr…| Pat in the World
Reading this week: I said it before but as you can see from the titles the framing device for this series of posts is the efforts of the London Missionary Society to extend their Central African Mission into Bemba territory. Despite that being the framing device, I am going to wind up doing a very … Continue reading LMS in Bembaland IV→| Pat in the World
“Niamkolo House” from the same source as these photos. Reading this week: Craftland by James Fox Although the overall framing device for this series of posts (meant mostly to show you t…| Pat in the World
Reading this week: Last week we covered a letter from James Hemans to the London Missionary Society Foreign Secretary Rev. R. Wardlaw Thompson urging him to authorize the Central African Mission to open up a new station in the heart of Bemba-land. We immediately part from that journey with a detour. There was a good … Continue reading LMS in Bembaland II→| Pat in the World
Reading this week: Our series on “things I found in the SOAS archives” continues. These will be some rather lengthy letters and reports, so I will split it up into a few posts. This series of letters (almost) all have to do with the missionaries “opening up” Bemba country, or as they called it Awemba … Continue reading LMS in Bembaland I→| Pat in the World
A mea culpa: just two posts ago I talked about how I didn’t really have an explanation for the above map (and an accompanying letter), which was illustrating land that the London Missionary S…| Pat in the World
We return to our series on “things I took pictures of in the SOAS LMS archives” with two more maps, these ones drawn by Ed Hore: Reviewing my notes I don’t think I noted when these are dated, if indeed they came with dates. I think it might be around 1881. I included transcriptions of … Continue reading Tanganyika Sailing Directions→| Pat in the World
As you all will recall I went to visit the London Missionary Society archives at SOAS back when we visited the UK. I am trying to put the stuff I dug up online. I already did some of this, putting the real exciting photos and things up already. I already put one map up, but … Continue reading Map of LMS Niamkolo Station→| Pat in the World
Reading this week: Sultan to Sultan by M. French-Sheldon Journey to the Source of the Nile by Christopher Ondaatje After our very adventurous day going all around Kigoma and Ujiji, our next day and…| Pat in the World
I oughta actually read Livingstone’s books. I have done a bit of following in his footsteps. He came through near where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, having visited Lake Chila and crossed the migh…| Pat in the World
Alright! From my last post you are aware that I was able to visit the London Missionary Society archives kept at SOAS in London and it was super cool. The box with the photos is a box of a few diff…| Pat in the World
Reading this week: Visions from the Forests, General Editors Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot Sacred River by Syl Cheney-Coker Afro Sport This fall I got to visit the London Missionary…| Pat in the World
Transcription of The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society Central African Mission 1876-1905Download At long last, I have finally completed my transcription of The Chronicle of the London Miss…| Pat in the World
