Within four months Mackay, with some other young missionaries who had volunteered for the same great work, was standing on the deck of the S.S. Peshawur as she steamed out from Southampton for Zanzibar.
He was in the footsteps of Livingstone—"a Scotsman and a Christian"—making for the heart of Africa and "ready to turn his hand to anything" for the sake of Him who as
"... the Carpenter of Nazareth
Made common things for God."
FOOTNOTES:
[49] "What is the minister gazing at, with his son Alec, in the dust of the road?"
[50] See [Chapter XV].
[51] December 12, 1875.
[52] May 1, 1873.