Abstract
Historical studies of Christian missions in Africa have in the past focused upon their wider political, social, economic, and cultural impacts, and only more recently upon the internal dynamics of the mission station.2 However, the need for study of the links between missionaries and science, and of the more physical and spatial demonstrations of their presence, has also become apparent. Recent studies have shown how missionaries sought to redeem and civilize the African landscape, through tree planting and plough cultivation in Lesotho, or irrigation in the northern Cape.3 Such impositions reflected the missionaries' self-confidence and ambition to transform the environment, but also their very European readings of the landscape. Nature, however attractive, needed to be mastered and utilized
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