The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D.B.B. Russell, 1875 - 384 ページ |
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abundant animal antelopes Arabs arrived attack Bakwains Banian banks Batoka beads Bechuanas bishop Boers called canoes carried cattle Cazembe Central Africa chief cloth coast crocodiles death desert district elephants English expedition farther fever flows forest friends gave grass half-caste hand head hippopotami hundred miles ingstone ivory J. G. BENNETT journey Kalahari desert Kilimane killed kind Kirk Kuruman labor Lake Ngami Lake Nyassa Lake Tanganyika land large number Leeambye Leeba letters Linyanti lion Living Livingstone Loanda Lualaba Makololo Manganja Manyema missionary mountains natives never Nile party passed Portuguese present Quango reached river Roderick Murchison round says Sebituane Sechele seen Sekeletu sent Sesheke Shinte Shire slave-trade slaves spears species Stanley stream Tete thousand feet tion told trade traveller trees tribes tusks Ujiji Unyanyembe valley village women yards Zambesi Zanzibar
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30 ページ - I left behind. The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open the country; and we shall see who have been most successful in resolution — they or I.
21 ページ - Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor, similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
196 ページ - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
21 ページ - Another man, whose life I had saved before, after he had been tossed by a buffalo, attempted to spear the lion while he was biting Mebalwe. He left Mebalwe and caught this man by the shoulder, but at that moment the bullets he had received took effect, and he fell down dead.
21 ページ - Creator for lessening the pain of death. Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head, I saw his eyes directed to Mebalwe, who was trying to shoot him at a distance of ten or fifteen yards.
366 ページ - I saw myself lying dead in the way to Ujiji, and all the letters I expected there useless. When I think of my children and friends, the lines ring through my head perpetually : " I shall look into your faces, And listen to what you say, And be often very near you When you think I'm far away.
365 ページ - Some of the words I had to inquire about ; for instance, the meaning of the words " to haunt and kill by spirit power ;" then it was, "Oh, you sent me off to Manga (sea-coast), but the yoke is off when I die, and back I shall come to haunt and to kill you.
41 ページ - After sitting with him some time, and commending him to the mercy of God, I rose to depart, when the dying chieftain, raising himself up a little from his prone position, called a servant, and said, " Take Robert to Maunku (one of his wives), and tell her to give him some milk.
17 ページ - Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. It was with, unfeigned delight I became a member of a profession which is pre-eminently devoted to practical benevolence, and which, with unwearied energy, pursues, from age to age, its endeavours to lessen human woe.
148 ページ - ... and deliver the proceeds to my men; but I intended, if my life should be prolonged, to purchase the goods ordered by Sekeletu in England with my own money, and pay myself on my return out of the price of the ivory. This I explained to the men fully, and Zz they, understanding the matter, replied, " Nay, father, you will not die; you will return to take us back to Sekeletu.