From upper left, clockwise: "View at Chisumulu, Lake Nyasa" "On the River Shire" "Buying Wood for Chauncy Maples" "The Chauncy Maples and Charles Janson". The postcard is quartered into four photographs depicting the following images, from upper left clockwise: missionaries and others navigating a dugout canoe on a lake, beached canoes on a riverbank, three steamers and a rowboat before an island, and missionaries buying corded wood from others on a riverbank. The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed in the correspondence section is the following: "Specimen of African Post Card, published by the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 9 Dartmouth Street, Westminster, S. W." "First series, 8 colored 7d. by post 8d." "12 Toned, 5 d. " 6d." "Second series: 10 coloured and 10 toned, 1/- by post 1/1" "4 [colored and] 5 [toned], 6d. " 7d." "2 [colored and] 2 [toned] 3d. " 3 1/2 d." "An illustrated Catalogue of Literature and list of African Curios may also be had at above address."
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