The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D.: Carefully Compiled from Reliable SourcesJ. Semple, 1875 - 384 ページ |
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abundant animal antelopes appeared Arabs arrived attack Bakwains Banians banks Batoka Bechuanas bishop Boers called canoes carried cattle Cazembe Central Africa chief cloth coast crocodiles death desert district elephants England English expedition farther feet fever forest friendly friends gave grass half-caste head herds hippopotami hundred miles ingstone ivory J. G. BENNETT Johanna journey Kalahari desert Kilimane killed kind Kirk Kuruman labor Lake Ngami Lake Nyassa Lake Tanganyika land large number Leeambye Leeba letter Linyanti lion Living Livingstone Loanda Lualaba Makololo Manganja Manyema mission missionary natives never Nile party passed Portuguese Quango reached river Roderick Murchison round says Sebituane Sechele seen Sekeletu sent Sesheke Shinte Shire slave-trade slaves spears Stanley stream Tanganyika Tete thousand tion traders traveller trees tribes tusks Ujiji Unyanyembe valley village wife women yards Zambesi Zanzibar
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18 ページ - Starting, and looking half round, I saw the lion just in the act of springing upon me. I was upon a little height ; he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. 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 nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious...
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 - 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.
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 - 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.
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.
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.
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.
118 ページ - Australian gold before its discovery, for here it was in black and white. In his easy-chair he had forestalled me by three years, though I had been working hard through jungle, marsh, and fever, and, since the light dawned on my mind at Dilolo, had been cherishing the pleasing delusion that I should be the first to suggest the idea that the interior of Africa was a watery plateau of less elevation than flanking hilly ranges.
45 ページ - ... number of their wagons (counting the cannon as one) was eighty-eight. All the goods of the hunters (certain English gentlemen hunting and exploring in the north) were burned in the town ; and of the Boers were killed twenty-eight. Yes, my beloved friend, now my wife goes to see the children, and Kobus Hae will convey her to you. • "I am, SECHELE,