Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Blood Blisters Back Of Throat
was born on October 13, 1862 in Islington, London. Daughter of George Kingsley, MD, naturalist and travel writer, and her maid Mary Bailey, was saved from being considered the bastard child when his father decided to marry his mother four days before his birth. His mother was an invalid and Mary Victorian society expected to remain in the country and deal with it. Mary, whose intelligence no one cared, he locked himself in his father's library where he devoured books of travel and scientific works, geographical or historical, besides the letters that he, the great absence in his life, sent him from the most exotic planet.
In the 1880 his family moved to Cambridge, where he had the opportunity to publicize the work of Charles Darwin and TH Huxley. In 1892, within six weeks, loses his parents. At the Victorian era, the fate of an unmarried woman of thirty, who had spent a lifetime caring for a younger brother to the inability of a sick mother who could not do without their care and that she was not able to do anything but not too much blame endless absences of the husband, was none other than keep taking care of his brother. His life took a ninety-degree turn when his brother Charles went to China. Freed from family responsibilities, and with an income of £ 500 a year, Mary was able to travel. Decided to head to Africa to collect the necessary materials to finish the book that her father left half on indigenous cultures, based on studies conducted during his eternal travels.
passed in 1892 holiday acclimatization Canary Islands where he reaffirmed his adventurous spirit. Being aware that one of the biggest dangers they would face would be an endless list of diseases, did a nursing course before leaving in July 1893, when it sailed to Africa on board the freighter Lagos. During the long voyage, the ship's captain was introduced into the art of navigation. She would never forget the experience of piloting a ship of two thousand tons and recognize the great value of the teachings he received from one master. In Angola remained a few months starting their ethnographic studies.
Trading cloth, rum or snuff got moving to the north to the Congo Free State, personal property of Leopold II of Belgium, whose atrocities committed in that corner of the world reported his good friend Mary and journalist Edmund D. Morel, who captained an information campaign against the terrible king. It is estimated that during the domain of King Leopold of the Congo were killed about ten million native speakers, most of them enslaved, mutilated, killed or threatened with death to work in the production of rubber. Mary's journey ended in the British protectorate of Calabar, Nigeria now, having traveled the French Congo and Gabon gathering data on the religious rites that were practiced there.
returned to England in January 1894 knowing that sooner or later would return to Africa. Need money to start his next journey, he went to the British Museum with specimens that had brought. Professor Günther, admired for their quality and the ability to take samples of previously unknown species, gave their support and gave him all the scientific material that Mary might need. His second trick was the publisher MacMillan, and she went with the manuscript of her father that she had completed her experiences. The editor, seeing the quality of part written by Mary, he offered to publish their experiences and research findings on their return.
Finally, he was given the opportunity to travel as lady in waiting Lady MacDonald, who was going to join her husband, the governor of Calabar. On December 23, 1894 left both aboard the shuttle Batanga. When they came to Calabar, the governor urged Mary to accompany them to the English island of Fernando Poo, where he had some issues to resolve. There he started his anthropological studies on the boobies and took some valuable photographs would be published in London.
In those months of tireless activity and collected important scientific ethnological information, collected fish and insects in the mangroves for the British Museum, cared for by typhus epidemic broke out in the area and visited the missionary Mary Slessor, who gave invaluable information about the customs and rituals of the peoples who inhabited the area. His next adventure was to Ogoué upriver by canoe with the intention to investigate the Fang tribe, the dreaded cannibals. The Fang helped and welcomed and between them brought a very special relationship. Before returning to England became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Cameroon by a route so far untouched. There had to outrun a tornado.
In November 1895, returned to England, the journalists were waiting impatiently for interview. It was already famous during the three years he lectured around the country about life in Africa. Wrote three books recount his experiences in Africa: Travels in West Africa (MacMillan, 1897), West African Studies (MacMillan, 1899) and The story of West Africa (Horace Marshall , 1900). Mary Kingsley angered the Church of England when she criticized missionaries for trying to change people in Africa. He spoke about some aspects of African life that caused impact on many people, such as polygamy. She discussed the prevailing idea that "a black man is nothing but a white underdeveloped." however, was quite conservative on other issues and did not support the movement of women's suffrage.
met his death at the age of thirty-seven years during his third visit to Africa. Then it was immersed in the war between the Boers and Britain, where he worked tireless volunteer nurse. On June 3, 1900 died victim of typhus disease, after suffering unbearable pain. His body found eternal rest in the deep sea, as she wanted, after a funeral with honors in Simon's Town, South Africa. As a curiosity we must add that Mary Kingsley made all of his travels in Africa wearing the same clothes he had been in Victorian England and carrying an umbrella.
Sources:
http://www.viajeros.com/articulos/mary-kingsley-la-reina-de-africa
http://www.viajeros.com/articulos/mary-kingsley-la-exploradora- African
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kingsley
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