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"Boys bringing in Firewood". Exterior view showing six boys carrying wood that has been collected and bound up. They are carrying the wood on their heads except two boys who have lowered the bundles which are as high as the children. ❧ Kikuyu Mission was established, in 1898 in the Thogoto district of the Central Highlands, by Rev. Thomas Watson after the first site at Kibwezi was abandoned. After Rev. Thomas Watson’s death in 1900 the mission was handed over to the Church of Scotland from the East Africa Scottish Mission, an arm of the Imperial East Africa Company. Dr David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1853-1907) ran the mission for seven years [1901-1907]. His nephew was Dr John William Arthur (1881-1952), in Kikuyu from 1907-1938, who would have been running the mission at the time of this photograph. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa
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