1882 first edition yellow cloth cover binding. 301 pages. This is volume 1 only from the original two volume set. Ex-library copy with the usual ink stamps and loan cards. In good antiquarian condition. The first two pages loose from the binding.

Volume one contains chapters on material culture, arts,

religion, laws, language, etc while volume two contains

short histories and accounts of travel and the author's travel

and life at Blantyre.   

Volume I. Native Customs and Beliefs.

xvi, [i], 301 pages + frontispiece with tissue-guard.

Full-page plates with tissue-guards + in-text illustrations.

The Blantyre Mission was founded in October 1876 by the 

Established Church of Scotland, and named after the small 

village in which David Livingstone was born. Under its first

leader, Rev. Duff Macdonald, the Blantyre Mission ruled over

the surrounding hills with a despotic cruelty, flogging and

killing suspected thieves and murderers without even the

pretence of a trial. The behaviour of the early Blantyre

missionaries caused a scandal in the British press, forcing

many of them to retire, and Macdonald to be replaced by

Clement Scott in 1881.