Excerpt from Nyasa, the Great Water: Being a Description of the Lake and the Life of the People I have to exercise considerable self-control and repress my desire to say all I know and have thought about Will Johnson ever since I went as a boy to the Grammar School at Bedford in 1877. He had then left the school and Oxford too; but he was still one of our heroes, chiefly I suppose for his prowess as the Stroke of the School Four and Stroke of his College VIII when Univ. Went head of the river, and for his success in gaining from the School an appointment in the i.c.s. Behind his prowess and intellectual success lay greatness of soul and gifts of real leadership. These had led naturally to his determination to leave all and obey the call of his Master to the Mission Field in Africa. Then dear old Seppy Phillpotts used to keep us informed of his work and encouraged us to provide the Ousel for his voyages on Lake Nyasa. He would have made a great adminis trator in India, and no doubt the Service itself suffered a loss by his decision to dedicate his gifts to the work of a missionary in Africa. 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.