Mable Shaw was one of the first women missionaries sent by the London missionary Society to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).  In 1915 she reported that as she was about to leave a village of lepers and bicycle home, she was told that a lion was prowling about, and it wasn't safe for her to go alone.  As she prepared to leave, the headman, an aged but venerable man who himself was a victim of leprosy, came out of one of the little houses.