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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

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am-bassador, who in the same solemn way would state hisobjections. The first council of this kind is amusingenough, but when they come to be repeated two or threetimes a day, ones patience is most sorely taxed. The pa-tience required in dealing with Africans is almost super-human. All this time Hannington was in great distress of body.The very day after he left Kagei he wrote in his diary. Very ill with dysentery and violent internal pain. Myliver, too, is in such a state that I have to walk with myhands tied to my neck to prevent my arms moving, astheir least motion gives me intense pain. And so on,from day to day, ever from bad to worse, till, faintingand exhausted with cruel suffering, he barely crawledto his friends tent at Msalala. He had struggled longand gamely, but his weakness now came upon him sud-denly like an armed man ; he could no longer hide fromhimself the bitter truth ; and the brave heart which hadso long supported him at last gave way. He confessedthat he was done.
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CO oo 00 I CO pq CO > i—i H< pq QWg <HH Q CHAPTER XVII. BEATEN BACK.(l883.) In la sua voluntade e nostra pace. In His will is our peace. DANTE. Joie, pleurs de joie; renonciation totale et douce. Pascal. When Hannington bade farewell to his friends atKagei and started for Msalala, no one would have beenmore incredulous than himself had it been suggestedthat he was also bidding farewell to Africa. But it waseven so. His struggles against those increasing symptoms by which an over-wrought nature was giving himnotice of her inability longer to endure the strain putupon her, had been heroic. He had refused to believethat he was to be stopped before he reached his des-*ination, and had set his face desperately toward thegoal at the head of the lake. But it began now to dawnupon his reluctant mind that he was beaten. Racked with fever ; torn by dysentery, scarce able tostand upright under the grip of its gnawing agony; withhis arms lashed to his neck lest their least movementshou

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