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Title: A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ception from the king. They re-mained there, continually occupied in discus-sion and preaching, till November fith, whenMr. Isenberg returned to England. Mr. Krapfcontinued in Shoa, laboring among the Abys-sinian Christians, having secured the confidenceof the king of Shoa to a very remarkable de-gree, so that the king assured him of his pro-tection as long as he should live. Mr. Krapfhad made an expedition, with the King ofShoa, among the Galla tril)es, by whom theslave trade was carried on to a considerableextent; but it was considered a favorabletime to labor for its abolition. The Commit-tee were so impressed with the )irovidontialopenings, not merely as regarded Abyssinia it-self, but also the heathen Galla tribes, thatthey resolved to form the Abyssinian into anew mission, to be called the East AfricanMission, and Messrs. Miillheisen and Midlerwere sent out to reinforce it. As this missionwill, hereafter, extend beyond the bounds ofAbyssinia, it will be treated under the head ot
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AFRICA. 11 Afrka East, -which see.—GobaVs Abyssinia;Edinburgh Encijdopedia; Reports and Period-icals of ike Church Missionary Society ; AfricanRepository for January, 1850. AFAKEAITU : A station of the LondonMissionary Society on Eimco, South Sea. AFRICA : The continent of Africa is avast peninsula, in the form of an irreguhirtriangle, of Avhich the north is its base. Africa, says the learned Prof. Guiyot, isthe most singular in its form of all the conti-nents. Its mass, nearly round, or ellipsoidal,is concentrated upon itself It (jrojects intothe ocean no important peninsula, nor any-where lets into its bosom the waters of theocean. It seems to close itself against everyinfluence from without. Thus the extension ofthe line of coasts is only 14,000 geographicalmiles, for a surface of 8,720,000 square miles;so that Africa has only one mile of coast for623 miles of surface. Africa is separated from Europe on thenorth by the Mediterranean Sea, and fromAsia on the east, by the Isthmus o

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