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MR. JOSEPH THOMSON read a paper on his expedition to Lake Bangweolo in 1890–91 to the Royal Geographical meeting on Monday night. The paper was not only of a thoroughly scientific character, but also a model of literary grace, Mr. Thomson having the trained eye which enables him to detect and throw into prominence the really important features. The expedition went up the Zambesi by way of the Kwakwa creek, encountering considerable hostility and obstruction from the Portuguese authorities on the way. Mr. Thomson speaks warmly of the great work done by the Scottish missionaries in the Blantyre and Nyassa districts. Under the kind but firm control of the missionaries the warlike Angoni tribes came in thousands to cultivate the fields, which formerly they visited only for plunder, and for the first time in all his African travels Mr. Thomson found a spot where the advent of the white man was an unmitigated blessing to tie natives.
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Mr. Joseph Thomson's Journey to Lake Bangweolo. Nature 47, 115–116 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047115b0
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