Author: Champion, George. (Ed. Alan R. Booth).
Title: Journal of the Rev. George Champion. American Missionary in Zululand 1835-9.
Description: C. Struik. Cape Town 1967 1st edition. Sea-green cloth boards. 149pp illustrated 8vo. 0.4kg. Bookplate to front pastedown and gift inscription to ffep. else a conservatively VG copy in Good dustwrapper (spine tanned, some minor wear, no loss or tears). a good clean copy. George Champion was one of a party dispatched by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (in 1834?) to start a mission near Port Natal, the party arriving in Cape Town on 6th February 1835. They were instructed to keep a daily journal for submission to the Board. Delayed by act of war they only arrived in Port Natal on 21st December 1835. Champion's diary starts on this date. Dingane was never a trustworthy person and his attitude to the missionaries changed almost daily. Champion's diary is a valuable personal insight into Dingane's despotic rule.

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