Photograph overlooking Bandawe, a small fishing on the shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in the northern region of Malawi. Bandawe was home for a time to Dr Robert Laws who moved here from Cape MacClear at the southern end of the lake to try and escape malaria. The photograph shows a number of thatched huts scattered along a shoreline. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) the Scottish Missionary. In 1875, inspired by David Livingstone (1813-1873), Laws travelled to Malawi and was involved in the foundation of the mission station of Livingstonia on the shores of Lake Nyasa. During the succeeding 50 years he also established a network of hundreds of schools. In 1908 Laws was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.
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