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1908 cover sent registered to Austria from a missionary F Godineau at the Chilubula White Fathers Mission Station. A 1/- stamp, that pays 4d registration and a double letter rate of 8d (4d per ½ ounce) has been cancelled KASAMA NO 11 08. Broken Hill 1 DEC and London 26 DE 08 transit cancels are on the back. The mail route changed in 1908 for overseas mail. Runners travelled via Mpika to the railway line at broken Hill taking 20 days to reach there ! This is the only known registered letter from the White Fathers Mission Station at Chilubula. The White Fathers were the largest missionary society to operate in Zambia, as well as one of the earliest to settle in the country. The establishment of the Chilubula mission by the bishop of Nayasa Vicariate Joseph Dunpont in 1898, marked the beginning of the White Fathers colonisation of Lubemba. An interesting cover from this little seen missionary station.
