MEMOIR OF THE REV. THOMAS JENKINS, THIRTY-SIX YEARS MISSIONARY IN SOUTH AFRICA

THE battle of life was bravely fought by the subject of this Memoir, who was devoted to the one business of saving the souls of the heathen. For the long period of thirty years he gave himself, his energies, and his substance, to one of the many tribes of Southern Africa, the Amapondas, under the ruling power of the great chief Faku. It has been said of this faithful missionary that "he wished not to be known but by the Amapondas, to whose interests, both spiritual and temporal, he was ardently attached.