Excerpt from Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Wakefield: Missionary in East Missionary work in Eastern and Central Africa has of late years come to hold a prominent place in the attention and sympathy of the Christian public of the world. The explorations of Mr. Stanley, the founding of Missions on the Upper Congo, and in Uganda, as well as the murder of the good Bishop Hannington; and of Mr. and Mrs. Houghton of the United Methodist Free Churches Mission, have all, no doubt, tended to produce this result. It is therefore hoped that the publication of a third and cheaper edition of the story of the life of a brave woman, quietly working, and patiently suffering and dying upon a pioneer Mission Station near the East Coast, for the good of her heathen sisters and their children, will not be unwelcome to those who are interested in the spread of the Redeemer's kingdom in the Dark Continent. In the final chapter of the present edition of this work many additional particulars will be found which it is hoped will be of interest; and some notes have also been added concerning the state of the Mission at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.