JOURNEYS IN AFRICA
Mr. Broome Smith;., F.R.G.S.. who is lecturing under the auspices of fhe N.Z. 0.M.5.. will speak at St. Hilda's Schoolroom, Island Bay, this evening, hi* subject being "Missionary Journeys in West Africa." Mr. Broome Smith has spent 23 years of his life in Africa, doing; pioneering and translation wor*. chiefly in Ashanti, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. One of his experiences was to b? tied up for three days awaiting the pleasure of a drunken chief to pronounce tbe death sentence. He sayed the lives of seven persons at a cannibal feast as his fee for successfully performing a most difficult and seemingly hopeless operation.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 23 July 1917, Page 6
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108JOURNEYS IN AFRICA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 23 July 1917, Page 6
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