Word: basutoland
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Hardest hit of all were the French Protestant missions. More than half of their missionaries were mobilized at the outbreak of the war, leaving many stations dependent solely on women workers. To the support of these missions in Madagascar, Basutoland, Barotseland, the Cameroons and Gabon, and certain Pacific islands, have come the U. S. members of the International Missionary Council. Hundreds of German missionaries in British territory were interned, though many have since been released on parole to continue their work...
...cavern wall at Altamira, in north Spain. Cunningly he had fashioned a lively bison, with a fine high hump, muscular forelegs, a head set well enough to do justice to contemporary Animal Artist John Raltenbury Skeaping (TIME, May 3). In Khotsa Cave, 5,000 mi. from Spain in Basutoland, South Africa, Anthropologist Frobenius found the Altamira bison's twin. The long-legged silhouet of a wildly running bowman found at Saltadora, Spain was duplicated in Basutoland at Bogati Hill; other parallelisms or derivatives sprang up time after time...
...Land. There he met a person much maligned by African whites, King Segow Faku. Dean tried to persuade this King to build ships and schools of his own. Dean reconciled the King with his ancient enemies, the Pondo Mesis. Then Dean went to King Lerothodi and Queen Baring, of Basutoland. He wanted to link Segow Faku, the Pondo Mesis and the Basutos. There would be a renaissance of the old African culture and civilization. Dean asked U. S. Negroes to send builders, educators. News came that all the other African Kings were gathered at Cape Town to do homage...