<P> To advance these goals , it sought to send a mission led by a bishop into Central Africa ; Charles Mackenzie was duly consecrated in 1860 and led an expedition in 1861 up the Zambezi into the Shire Highlands . This first expedition was more or less disastrous . The area chosen as a base , near Lake Nyasa ( Lake Malawi ) , proved highly malarial ; Bishop Mackenzie died there of the disease on 31 January 1862 , along with many local people and three others among the tiny missionary party . Early conversion efforts from this base yielded little result , and supplies ran out or were destroyed during a period of famine . The mission then withdrew from the area , abandoning the graves of the missionaries who had died there , and though it established a new presence in Zanzibar many years passed before it returned to Malawi . Bishop Tozer , Mackenzie 's successor , deemed the mission 's early years `` a miserable failure '' . </P>
<P> To advance these goals , it sought to send a mission led by a bishop into Central Africa ; Charles Mackenzie was duly consecrated in 1860 and led an expedition in 1861 up the Zambezi into the Shire Highlands . This first expedition was more or less disastrous . The area chosen as a base , near Lake Nyasa ( Lake Malawi ) , proved highly malarial ; Bishop Mackenzie died there of the disease on 31 January 1862 , along with many local people and three others among the tiny missionary party . Early conversion efforts from this base yielded little result , and supplies ran out or were destroyed during a period of famine . The mission then withdrew from the area , abandoning the graves of the missionaries who had died there , and though it established a new presence in Zanzibar many years passed before it returned to Malawi . Bishop Tozer , Mackenzie 's successor , deemed the mission 's early years `` a miserable failure '' . </P>
who was the first leader of the universities mission to central africa
who was the first leader of the universities mission to central africa
Charles Mackenzie
Charles Mackenzie