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“Remains of fig-tree at which Henry Henderson and the other pioneers encamped. 23rd October 1876.” Landscape view showing a dead fig-tree. On the 23rd October 1876 the initial mission party camped at this site, and this date was accepted as the founding date of the Blantyre mission. The site was situated in the Shire Highlands between the Nasalo and Likabula streams and selected by Henry Henderson (1843-1891), son of a minister from Kinclaven, Perthshire, and part of the pioneer missionary group sent out by the Free Church mission and the Church of Scotland mission in 1875.
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