George Grenfell

Chapter seventeen, The Night of the Slave Girls.

George Grenfell.

The Building of the Steamship.

When David Livingstone lay dying in his hastily built hut in the heart of Africa with his black companions, Susie and Shuma, attending him, almost his last words were, How far away is the Luerpula? He knew that the rivers to which the Africans gave that name was only a short distance away and that it flowed northward.

The basin of the Congo would cover the whole of Europe from the Black Sea to the English Channel.

In the year when Livingstone died and before Stanley started to explore the Congo, a young man who had been thrilled when reading the travels of Livingstone sailed to the west coast of Africa to the Cameroons.

His name was George Grenfell, a Cornish boy, born at Sancreed, four miles from Penzance in England, who was brought up in Birmingham.

He was apprenticed at fifteen to a firm of hardware and machinery dealers.

Chapter seventeen, The Night of the Slave Girls.

George Grenfell.

The Building of the Steamship.

When David Livingstone lay dying in his hastily built hut in the heart of Africa with his black companions Susi and Chuma attending him, almost his last words were, How far away is the Luapula? He knew that the rivers to which the Africans gave that name was only a short distance away and that it flowed northward.

The basin of the Congo would cover the whole of Europe from the Black Sea to the English Channel.

In the year when Livingstone died and before Stanley started to explore the Congo, a young man who had been thrilled when reading the travels of Livingstone sailed to the west coast of Africa to the Cameroons.

His name was George Grenfell, a Cornish boy, born at Sandcreed, four miles from Penzance in England, who was brought up in Birmingham.

He was apprenticed at fifteen to a firm of hardware and machinery dealers.