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Show Malay Evangel Visits City on Tramp Around World "TER traveling by foot for more A than 116,000 miles, the Rev. Ilarrabeliio A. Marangeopa, Malay missionary, arrived in Salt Lake last night from Ogden. Og-den. He has preached In almost every corner of the world, using nineteen languages to convey his message, he declared yesterday. He will speak on the streets of Salt Iike during his stay. Mr. Marangeopa began his Journey January 1, ISifT, several months after he had been saved from death at the hands- of a sav;i ye tribe In Africa, Into whose custody he hnd fallen whllo accompanying a trading expedition. expe-dition. Ho had gone Into tho dark ( continent as a member of the London Missionary society. A leader of a trading expedition found him in March, 18?H, and offered to trade a bolt of cloth for him. The white man was successful In effecting the rel'-ase of the missionary oniy after telling them that the tribe would die should the missionary, who was unconscious from mistreatment, succumb suc-cumb while In their charge. Mr. Marangeopa was found na a baby by the ICarl of Ism ere In a hut In Mauritius, east of Madagascar, Madagas-car, after a scourge of yellow fever, to which his parents had fallen victim. vic-tim. Ho was taken to Manchester by the nobleman, where he was educated. When he leaves Salt Lake the preacher will go to San Kranclseo, from which city he will sail to China and thence to Capetown, Africa, completing com-pleting his journey around tho world. |