54. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kuruman, to Rev D. G. Watt, Northwich, Cheshire
Comments of plans to create irrigation channels from the Vaal or Yellow River (by Mr Hughes) and the judgement of its impossibility by Mr Moffat Junior (a government surveyor) and surrounding debate; in the meantime the Vaal has run dry; comments on missionary tactics in South Africa, which Livingst...
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CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 3 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
10 Jan 1851 |
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Item |
| Format: | Archive |
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CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 3 |
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| Summary: |
Comments of plans to create irrigation channels from the Vaal or Yellow River (by Mr Hughes) and the judgement of its impossibility by Mr Moffat Junior (a government surveyor) and surrounding debate; in the meantime the Vaal has run dry; comments on missionary tactics in South Africa, which Livingstone describes as falling into two camps - one on the south of the Orange River and one on the north - the "Conservative" (in the Colonial stations) and the "Radical"; discusses the role of Christian missions in improving the position of "Hottentots" from the "state of slavery" to the "state of freemen"; resistance of the Conservatives represented by Dr Philip to withdraw too soon from the mission field; compares the lot of the poor in the Scottish Highlands to the population in the Cape Colony; gives personal news. |
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4pp |
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Open |
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| Format: | Archive |