The Life and Labors of David Livingstone, LL. D., D.C.L.: Covering His Entire Career in Southern and Central Africa. Carefully Prepared from the Most Authentic Sources ... The Whole Rendered Clear and Plain by a Most Accurate Map of the Whole Region Explored and the Routes Clearly IndicatedHubbard bros., 1876 - 869 Seiten |
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abundant Africa Angola animals Arabs banks beasts beautiful Bechuanas buffaloes calico called canoes carried Casembe charms chief Christian civilization cloth coast continent crossed David Livingstone desert doctor elephants expedition explorer feet forests friends gold grass ground guns hand head heart heathen hills hippopotamus honor hundred huts interest interior ivory journey Kebrabasa Kilimane killed Kuruman labor lake Lake Ngami land Linyanti live Livingstone Loanda Makololo Makonde Manganja Mazaro Mazitu midst miles mission missionary Mohamad Monomotapa mountains natives never noble Nyanja Nyassa party passed path Portuguese Quango rain reached received region rhinoceros river rocks Roderick Murchison Rovuma scene Sebituane seemed seen Sekeletu Senna Sesheke Shire side slave-trade slaves soil spirit splendid strange stream Tete things thought tion town trade traveller trees tribes Ujiji valley village Waiyau wild women wonderful yards Zambesi Zanzibar Zulus
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Seite 356 - Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold : Gold ! gold ! gold ! gold...
Seite 63 - We like you as well as if you had been born among us ; you are the only white man we can become familiar with ; but we wish you to give up that everlasting preaching and praying ; we cannot become familiar with that at all. You see we never get rain, while those tribes who never pray as we do obtain abundance.
Seite 215 - European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight. The only want felt is that of mountains in the background. The falls are bounded on three sides by ridges 300 or 400 feet in height, which are covered with forest, with the red soil appearing among the trees. When about half a mile from the falls, I left the canoe by which we had come down thus far, and embarked in a lighter one, with men well acquainted with the rapids, who, by...
Seite 417 - ... the sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God : it proves a tonic to the system and is actually a blessing.
Seite 690 - And is the Doctor well?' 'Not very well, sir.' 'Where has he been so long?' 'In Manyuema.' 'Now, you Susi, run, and tell the Doctor I am coming.
Seite 216 - I did not comprehend it until, creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi...
Seite 216 - ... verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad, leaped down a hundred feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen or twenty yards. The entire falls are simply a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and then prolonged from the left bank away through thirty or forty miles of hills.
Seite 264 - There they would be compelled to drink an infusion of a plant named "goho," which is used as an ordeal. This ceremony is called " muavi," and is performed in this way : When a man suspects that any of his wives has bewitched him, he sends for the witch-doctor, and all the wives go forth into the field, and remain fasting till that person has made an infusion of the plant.
Seite 447 - It struck me after Sef had numbered up the losses that the Kilwa people sustained by death, in their endeavors to enslave people, similar losses on the part of those who go to " proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening of the prison to them that are bound " — to save and elevate, need not be made so very much of as they sometimes are.