Alexander Mackay

Alexander Mackay

Missionary and Engineer

By A.R. Evans - The first engineer missionary, Alexander Mackay answered the challenge made by H.M. Stanley to send a missionary to Uganda, "to teach the people to become Christians, and cure their diseases..."

"The further they advanced into the interior, the more undfriendly the natives were, delighting at every occurrence which hindered the white man's progress. They suspected that the building of the road was the first step in the coming to their country of large numbers of Europeans. In some places they blocked the way or drove off the oxen, while one chief threatened to shoot Mackay!"

Softcover, 73 pages.

Measures 5 1/2" x 9"

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