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"Rev. Alexander Hetherwick D.D., Rev. Robert H. Napier B.D." Group portrait showing eight European men and women standing on the steps of a brick building. Rev. A. Hetherwick is to the left of the image. The women are wearing wide hats and the two at the front hold bouquets. Rev. Alexander Hetherwick (1860-1939) founded the Domasi mission in 1884. It is one of a number of important missions, extending from Blantyre, in Southern Malawi and takes its name from the largest river that flows into Lake Shirwa [Chilwa] on the western shore. It is situated north of Blantyre near Mount Zomba. The station was central to the medical work in the area, and trained girls in industrial and domestic work. Mr Hetherwick was an accomplished linguist and translated the New Testament in to the Yao language and wrote manuals on the Yao and Nyanja languages. Rev. Robert Hellier Napier (1884-1918), born in Yoker, educated at the University of Glasgow, and licensed in Dunblane in 1908. He arrived at Blantyre on the 16th June 1909 and was killed in action in Portuguese East Africa during the First World War. He was one of the translators of the Old Testament into Nyanja. From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
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