Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley
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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley: Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892 With the exception of the memoir and closing chapter, this book is made up extracts from my son´s letters and diary, beginning February 26, 1890, the day he left New York, and ending March 17, 1892, a few days before his death. For the better parts of the memoir and the editing of the letters from May to July, 1890, we are indebted to his brother, R. A. L., who would gladly and efficiently have done more of this labor of love had not his time been constantly occupied as an evangelist elsewhere. We have a continuous diary and also contemporaneous letters, and I have selected from one or the other, as seemed best, in order to give briefly a clear and connected view of his journeyings and labors, and of the countries and peoples among whom he went. In his daily intercourse with people of divers tongues, he acquired polyglot capacities and habits which naturally show themselves in his familiar writings, in editing which an effort was at first made to translate or substitute the strange words that occur with others. This was found undesirable, in place of which I give here a little glossary showing the meanings of those most commonly occurring; in addition to which, it is well to be forewarned that almost every place and person has at least two names; e.g., Leopoldville is known also as Kintamo; Bwemba, as Chumbiri; Luluaburg, the farthest point east to which he journeyed, is called also Malange; and Underhill, where he died, is known as Tunduwa, etc, etc. And there are no established rules of spelling, and hence we must not think it strange to find the same word written by him in different ways at different times. As an example of the strange mixing of languages, see the diary March 25, 1891, chapter VII., and note. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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