Thinking black : 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central Africa.

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Limited edition

London : Morgan and Scott, 1913. Second edition, second impression. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher s black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt (very lightly marked); top edge gilt; pp. xvi+486+18; illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates and 4 colour plates; offsetting to the endpaper maps, occasional pencil lines in margins, some pages unopened, two of the black backing sheets for the colour plates are torn. Daniel Crawford (7 December 1869 – 3 June 1926), also known as Konga Vantu , was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa. He was born in Gourock, son of a Clyde boat captain. He was influenced to go to Africa by meeting Frederick Arnot in 1888, a missionary who had just returned from two years at Bunkeya, capital of the Garenganze King, Msiri, where he had founded the Plymouth Brethren s Garenganze Evangelical Mission. Crawford arrived at Bunkeya in 1890 to join two Plymouth Brethren already at the mission. He was therefore a junior observer rather than a player in the dramatic events of late 1891 when British and Belgian expeditions competed to take Msiri s kingdom into their respective colonies, and Msiri was killed by Lieutenant Bodson of the Belgian expedition, In the aftermath of the killing and a massacre of Msiri s men, the 10,000-strong population of Bunkeya fled into the bush, and Crawford moved to the western shore of Lake Mweru and established a mission there. The Congo Free State s agents took over Katanga w

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