ABSTRACT
In failing health and with flagging spirit Edward Coode Hore left Lake Tanganyika for the last time in June 1888. Although he had remained constant to the idea of a chain of mission stations circling the lake’s shores, his society was in the process of shifting its emphasis to the Nyasa-Tanganyika Plateau, leaving the lake to the Catholic White Fathers. Africa had changed and so had the public response in England towards returning missionaries. In 1881 Hore had been the featured and praised speaker at his society’s annual public meeting in London; in 1889 he spoke to an annual meeting of young men. The native name “Tanganyika”, meaning “the mixture”, or the “coming together” of the waters, is of the most apt significance, for the water of the Lake is drawn from all sides of the depression, taking toll of the waters which would, otherwise, flow to the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, or the Pacific.
