¹ There is still much to be learned about Chilembwe's early attendance at the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland. If, as this passage indicates, he was attached to African traditional culture, it provides circumstantial evidence to suggest that the following extract from Life and Work. Blantyre Mission Supplement, November 1888, may refer to Chilembwe rather than to ‘Chirobwe’—misprints were not infrequent in this locally printed journal—and strengthens the view implicit, for example, on pp. 76–77 of Mwase's work that John Chilembwe was more attached to the customs of his ancestors than has usually been admitted: ‘Chirobwe… was taken away from the Mission some time ago by his mother to go to the native dance and has never since returned’ (p. 1).