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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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 3
Date(s) of creation: 10 Jan 1851
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

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scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 3
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scb_alt_ref_no Livingstone Wooden Box, item 54
prefix_number 054
title 54. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kuruman, to Rev D. G. Watt, Northwich, Cheshire
scb_date_creation 10 Jan 1851
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description 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.
scb_access_status Open
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