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FOREWORD.
MORE than two years have passed since a pleasant visit
which I received from Dr. Trower, Bishop of the Diocese of
Likoma, during which, perhaps somewhat rashly, I gave
the promise to write what little I had learned of the almost
unknown language of the wide-spread Makua tribes of
Portuguese East Africa, which has as its outcome the little
offering of my unripe gleanings gathered into the following
form.
Such as it is, I offer it to the Universities Mission as a
groundwork for more cunning hands to labour upon, in
profound admiration of the great work this Mission and its
devoted agents are doinsf in East, Central, and South-
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Central Africa, to let light into the minds of a vast section
of those African races which have too long known but
darkness.
R. C. F. MAUGHAM.
British Consulate, Beira,
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