Livingstone's Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern OceanJ. W. Bradley, 1859 - 442 ページ |
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abundance Africa Ambaca Angola animals appearance attack Bakwains Balonda Bamangwato bank Barotse Batoka beads Bechuanas Boers brought buffalo Bushmen called canoes Cape Cassange cattle Cazembe Chiboque chief Chobe cloth Coanza coast color companions crossed elephants English father feel feet felt fever friends gave give Golungo Alto grass guides guns head-man hippopotami hundred huts inhabitants island ivory journey Katema killed Kolobeng Kuruman labor lake Lake Ngami leave Lechulatebe Leeambye Leeba Linyanti lion living LIVINGSTONE Loanda maize Makalaka Makololo Mambari Manenko Masiko Matebele Matiamvo miles missionary morning native never night Oswell oxen party passed path Portuguese present Pungo Andongo Quango rain reached remarked river round Sebituane Sechele seen Sekeletu Sekwebu sent Sesheke Shinte slaves soon stream Tete thing tion town traders trees tribes tsetse tusks valley village whole wished yards young Zambesi
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330 ページ - ... witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes ; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.
17 ページ - 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 thero was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
331 ページ - In looking down into the fissure on the right of the island, one sees nothing but a dense white cloud, which, at the time we visited the spot, had two bright rainbows on it.
16 ページ - We found the lions on a small hill about a quarter of a mile in length, and covered with trees. A circle of men was formed round it, and they gradually closed up, ascending pretty near to each other. Being down below on the plain with a native schoolmaster, named...
373 ページ - All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations...
17 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.
244 ページ - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
49 ページ - ... as the mandibles come into brisk operation. The previously shrunken belly swells out, and, if left undisturbed, the fly quietly departs when it is full. A slight itching irritation follows, but not more than in the bite of a mosquito. In the ox this same bite produces no more immediate effects than in man.
21 ページ - He went home, gave each of hi» superfluous wives new clothing, and all his own goods, which they had been accustomed to keep in their huts for him, and sent them to their parents with an intimation that he had no fault to find with them, but that in parting with them he wished to follow the will of God.
18 ページ - I had on a tartan jacket on the occasion, and I believe that it wiped off all the virus from the teeth that pierced the flesh, for my two companions in this affray have both suffered from the peculiar pains, while I have escaped with only the inconvenience of a false joint in the limb. The man whose shoulder was wounded showed me his wound actually burst forth afresh on the same month of the following year. This curious point deserves the attention of inquirers.