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“Some natives take readily to mechanical things, as for instance, Ngaitungu, our indispensable workshop foreman who can be left alone with a workshop full of whirring machinery and will tend each machine, or work the saws or grind flour. He will also pump your tyres or mend them, take down your engine or remove your back axle, and 3 years ago he was a raw heathen in a blanket.” Portrait of a young man standing outside. When G.C. Cobb left Chogoria, in 1928 for the CMS, he handed over the supervision of the workshops and building work to Gaitungu who had been one of the earliest workers at Chogoria. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
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