GARDINER (Capt. Allen F., R.N.)
Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country, in South Africa
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Mendelssohn describes the contents of this book at length. The author achieved considerable personal success with Dingan the Zulu king, but was forbidden from either teaching or preaching the gospel in Zululand. However, he successfully concluded a land treaty between the residents of Port Natal and the King, and established a mission on the “Berea” now a suburb of Durban. The unfortunate Gardiner’s subsequent travels took him on missionary expeditions to Rio de Janeiro, the Indians of Chile, thence to New Guinea and finally to Patagonia where he and his small party died of starvation. Mendelssohn, p587, cf. p588/9; Abbey, 332.
