pressure on the missionaries had increased to the point that the entire LMS team left the island. Years in South Africa From 1835 to 1863, Cameron continued his missionary activities at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where he lived with his wife, children, and grandchildren, engaged in commerce and worked as a surveyor to the Corporation of Cape Town. His grandson Hugh MacDonald Cameron was the first registrar of the University of Cape Town. In 1853 the government of Mauritius employed Cameron to successfully negotiate with Ranavalona I regarding the terms of an agreement to restore trade between Madagascar and Mauritius that had been disrupted in 1845 by French and English attacks on the eastern Malagasy trading port of Toamasina. Second mission to Madagascar Ranavalona's death in 1861 and her succession by her son Radama II reopened Madagascar to foreign influence and the activities of Christian missionaries there. Cameron immediately returned and once again undertook a wide variety of secular activities in addition to his continued activities as a missionary. He constructed several buildings on the Rova compound in Antananarivo, including the Manampisoa (1866), a royal tomb (1868) and the stone shell of the Queen's Palace (the Manjakamiadana) in 1869. The towers of the Manjakamiadana were inspired by the original towers of Murthly castle in Scotland where Cameron spent his childhood. He oversaw the construction of the Memorial Church at Faravohitra and another at Analakely, a hospital, several mission houses and village churches, and a water wheel to supply the munitions factory at Anosimahavelona. He was also the first to survey and map Imerina and the region around Fianarantsoa. Notes Archives The archives of the London Missionary Society and the personal papers of James Cameron are held by SOAS Special Collections. 1875 deaths 1799 births People from Perthshire Scottish Anglican missionaries Anglican missionaries in Madagascar British expatriates in Madagascar