NOTED MISSIONARY DEAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 35, 1 July 1914, Page 2

NOTED MISSIONARY DEAD.

MR F. S. ARNOT, F.Ii.G.S. Per Press.Association. Christ-church, June 30. News has ibc-cn received in Christchurch of the <leath at Johannesburg on May 15 last, of Mr Frederick Stanley Arnot, F.R.G.S., the famous explorer and 'missionary. It has been said of •him that CcntraJ Africa owed more to his work than any other man, with the exception of David Livingstone. The late Mr Arnot spent practically 33 years of his 3ife in Central Africa! lie left London on July 19, 1881, and went out to Natal, wiwnce 'he travelled through the Grange Free State and the Transvaal and traversed ithe Kalahari Desert, finally reaching the Zambezi river. Thence he travelled tjirougto practically unlknown country from, the Zaimbesi to" Bonguela, a port in Portuguese territory, on the West Coast <0? Africa, this journey occupying from Hay, 188-i, to May 188,). Front Bengueht Mr Arnot set out tile following month, on his great journey through the wiido of Central Africa, finally roacliing 'Garenganze in February, 1880. There he establiWhied a. mission among the Garenganze people, witJi whom he remained for two years. His return journey to Bengjiela oteupied several months, und he finally Teaohed the <;oast in September, 1888. He returned to England, and in 1889 was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Subsequently Mr Arnot returned to Africa, and established a cliain of mission stations? in Central Africa, and it v.-as owing to his efforts that Mr Dan Crawford, the noted missionary, was established in North-West Tiliodesia, and that the Venerabte Goilkrd was sent out by the French Missionary Society to work in the Barotse Valley. In January last Mr Amuot set out with two young white men on an exploring tour up till© Valley of the Kabompo river, one of the tributaries of the Zambesi. He was taken yprioiisly ill. and fluid to be carried back under great difficulties to where he died, at the ago of 45.