GENERAL NOTES
AFRICA.
—Mr. Grattan Guinness honorable director of the Livingstone Congo Inland Mission, has published a grammar and dictionary in the language now spoken by the natives.
—The Bible in the Basuto language, has been issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society at a cost of $20,000. This is the ninth completed Bible in the native languages of Africa.
—Both roads from the coast to the level of the Upper Congo, that on the north side of the river and that on the south, are reported to be now open all the way. The vast basin of the Upper Congo, with its 900,000 square miles of territory and its 150,000,000 of idol worshippers may therefore be said to be overcome.
—Between the Zambesi River and Lake Bangueola a Missionary station is to be established by M. Ceillard, a French Missionary, and his wife, who have recently gone there for that purpose.
—Seven different nations are embraced by the Berlin Missionary Society in the area of their South African Work, which extends 1000 miles in length by 500 miles in width. They have forty-two stations within this boundary.
—Great Britain has twenty-three times as much trade with Africa as the United States has, and France fifteen times as much. Great Britain’s commerce on the West Coast alone amounts to over twenty millions of dollars, and that of France to over fifteen millions.
—The C. M. S. has recently sent six men to the Nyanza Mission. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Lane and Miss Havergal, who went out to be married to the Rev. A. D. Shaw. The same steamer took out a large party of missionaries for the London Missionary Society’s mission on Lake Tanganyika, and the two parties together formed a considerable majority of the passengers.
—News has been received from Zanzibar of the death of Rev. Charles Albert Janson, University College, Oxon, a member of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa. Mr. Janson died near Lake Nyassa, making the nineteenth death among the members of this mission.