Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion)

Robert Moffat, Scottish missionary and linguist, arrived in South Africa in 1817 under the aegis of the London Missionary Society. He pioneered missionary activity among the Tswana people and became deeply influential in South Africa, helping to open up the 'missionary road' north of the Cape and later criticising the Afrikaners and becoming an advocate of British imperial rule in the region. He was also the first transcriber of the Setswana language. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of Moffat's time as a missionary and contains, as he states in the preface, a 'faithful record of events which have occurred within the range of his experience and observation' that 'supplies much that may serve to illustrate the peculiar attributes of African society.' Missionary Labours was hugely popular with the Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 7 PREFACE......Page 14 Contents......Page 18 CHAPTER I......Page 26 CHAPTER II......Page 48 CHAPTER III......Page 63 CHAPTER IV......Page 78 CHAPTER V......Page 96 CHAPTER VI......Page 113 CHAPTER VII......Page 123 CHAPTER VIII......Page 134 CHAPTER IX......Page 147 CHAPTER X......Page 159 CHAPTER XI......Page 182 CHAPTER XII......Page 206 CHAPTER XIII......Page 225 CHAPTER XIV......Page 245 CHAPTER XV......Page 267 CHAPTER XVI......Page 289 CHAPTER XVII......Page 302 CHAPTER XVIII......Page 317 CHAPTER XIX......Page 338 CHAPTER XX......Page 359 CHAPTER XXI......Page 373 CHAPTER XXII......Page 389 CHAPTER XXIII......Page 408 CHAPTER XXIV......Page 431 CHAPTER XXVI......Page 464 CHAPTER XXVII......Page 490 CHAPTER XXVIII......Page 509 CHAPTER XXIX......Page 532 CHAPTER XXX......Page 549 CHAPTER XXXI......Page 577 CHAPTER XXXII......Page 599 CHAPTER XXXIII......Page 626 CHAPTER XXXIV......Page 650 INDEX......Page 662 Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of missionary activity among the Tswana people of South Africa by the Scottish missionary and linguist Robert Moffat. It attracted a wide Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa.