File:James Hannington, D.D., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., first bishop of eastern equatorial Africa - a history of his life and work, 1847-1885 (1887) (14760302886).jpg

Identifier: jameshannington00daws (find matches)
Title: James Hannington, D.D., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., first bishop of eastern equatorial Africa : a history of his life and work, 1847-1885
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dawson, E. C. (Edwin Collas), 1849-1925
Subjects: Hannington, James, 1847-1885 Church of England Missionaries Missionaries
Publisher: London : Seeley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Oct. 22nd, Thursday.—I found myself, perhaps aboutten oclock last night, on my bed in a fair-sized hut, butwith no ventilation, a fire on the hearth, no chimney forsmoke, about twenty men all round me, and rats andvermin ad lib.; fearfully shaken, strained in every limb ;great pain, and consumed with thirst, I got little sleepthat night. Pinto may cook my food, and I have beenallowed to have my Bible and writing things also. Ihear the men are in close confinement, but safe, and theloads, except a few small things, intact. Up to oneoclock I have received no news whatever, and I fear atleast a week in this black hole, in which I can barely seeto write. Floor covered with rotting banana peel andleaves and lice. Men relieving nature at night on thefloor; a smoking fire, at which my guards cook ar.ddrink pombe ; in a feverish district; fearfully shaken,scarce power to hold up small Bible. Shall I livethrough it ? My God, I am Thine. <c Toward evening I was allowed to sit outside for a
Text Appearing After Image:
Mt. 38.) Sick and Shattered. 455 little time, and enjoyed the fresh air ; but it made mat-ters worse when I went inside my prison again, and as Ifell exhausted on my bed I burst into tears—healthseems to be quite giving way with the shock. I fear Iam in a very caged-lion frame of mind, and yet sostrained and shattered that it is with the utmost diffi-culty I can stand ; yet I ought to be praising His HolyName, and I do. Not allowed a knife to eat my food with. The sav-ages who guard me keep up an unceasing strain of rail-lery, or at least I fancy they do, about the Mzungu. Oct. 23rd, Friday.—I woke full of pain and weak, sothat with the utmost difficulty I crawled outside and satin a chair, and yet they guard every move as if I was agiant. My nerves, too, have received such a shock that,some loud yells and war-cries arising outside the prisonfence,* I expected to be murdered, and simply turnedover and said : Let the Lord do as He sees fit; I shallnot make the slightest resistance.

Note About Images