Lake Nyasa, Malawi, [s.d.]

"Looking down on the lake". Photograph of an elevated view of Lake Nyasa (also known as Lake Malawi). Lake Nyasa is one of the African Great Lakes and the southern most lake in the Great Rift Valley system of East Africa. David Livingstone and was the first European explorer to reach the shores of this lake. He came here in 1859 and named it lake Nyasa.; 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.