"The Late Miss Mary Kingsley" by Rev. Dennis Kemp (pp. 16-19): contains a portrait of Mary Kingsley, and extracts from 5 of her letters (c. 1898) on the following subjects:

• The service of trained nurses instituted in West Africa.
• The poor quality of hospitals in West Africa; proposes that a hospital cruiser with trained nurses may provide a solution to the problem.
• The Sierra Leone hut-tax.
• Her state of exhaustion in the effort to make the British public understand West Africa.
• The conflicts arising from the advancement of the mission ideal and the commercial interests of the British government.