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Africana : or, The heart of heathen Africa
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- Creator
- by the Rev. Duff Macdonald
- Other Titles
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- Vol. 1 has title: Native customs and beliefs
- Vol. 2 has title: Mission life
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. ; Edinburgh : John Menzies & Co. ; Aberdeen : A. Brown & Co., 1882
- Physical Details
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- 2 volumes, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm05267896
- Vol. 1: xvi, [4], 301 p., [4] leaves of plates ; v. 2: ix, [3], 371 p., [5] leaves of plates.
- "A. King and Co., printers to the University"--Opposite t.p.
- Also available online.
- Vol. 1. Native customs and beliefs: Introductory ; First impressions ; Arts and literature ; Native theology ; Native worship ; Death ; Childhood and youth ; Mysteries ; Marriage ; Social life ; Government and administration of justice ; Personal rights ; Rights of property ; Inheritance and international law ; A slave government ; Witchcraft ; Ethnology ; African philology ; Estimate of native character ; Appendix: Cosmological tales -- Vol. 2. Mission life: Earlier attempts to Christianise Central Africa ; The Universities' mission to Central Africa ; Scotch missions ; Contact with slavery ; Pioneer work ; Quilimane to Blantyre ; The mission station ; First half ; Second half ; Third half ; Fourth half ; Fifth half ; Sixth half ; Seventh half ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Native tales
- I. Native customs and beliefs.--II. Mission life