The Life and Life-work of Dr. David Livingstone: Missionary, Philanthropist, and Explorer1876 - Africa - 806 pages |
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Arabs armed arrived attack Bagamoyo Banian beads Bombay boys called camp canoes caravan carried Casembe Casembe's Central Africa chief cloth coast David Livingstone deep deserted elephant English expedition explorer feet fever fire forest friends gave goats ground guns hands head hippopotamus hundred interior ivory James Gordon Bennett journey killed Kinyamwezi Kolobeng Kuruman Kwihara Lake Ngami Lake Nyassa Lake Tanganyika land leave Linyanti lion live Livingstone looked Makololo Manyuema Mazaro Mazitu miles Mirambo missionary Mohamad morning natives never night Nile Nsama party passed Portuguese reached river seen Sekeletu sent Sesheke Shinte Shire side slaves soko soldiers soon spears Speke Stanley stockade Sultan Tabora Tete tion told town trade TRAVELS trees tribes tusks Ujiji Unyamwezi Unyanyembe village Wanyamwezi wife wives woman women yards Zambesi Zanzibar
Popular passages
Page 143 - 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 of all that was happening.
Page 254 - European eyes ; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.
Page 516 - Africa has suggested, namely, a straw mat, with a goatskin over it, and another skin nailed against the wall to protect his back from contact with the cold mud. I...
Page 643 - ... a light sufficient for them to see his form. Dr. Livingstone was kneeling by the side of his bed, his body stretched forward, his head buried in his hands upon the pillow. For a minute they watched him: he did not stir, there was no sign of breathing ; then one of them, Matthew, advanced softly to him and placed his hands to his cheeks. It was sufficient; life had been extinct some time, and the body was almost cold : Livingstone was dead.
Page 610 - I beg to direct your attention to Africa : I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country, which is now open ; do not let it be shut again ! I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I LEAVE IT WITH YOU !" In a prefatory letter prefixed to the volume entitled Dr.
Page 11 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes.
Page 143 - 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.
Page 507 - I am not of a demonstrative turn ; as cold, indeed, as we islanders are usually reputed to be, but this disinterested kindness of Mr. Bennett, so nobly carried into effect by Mr. Stanley, was simply overwhelming. I really do feel extremely grateful, and at the same time I am a little ashamed at not being more worthy of the generosity. Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy ; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles.
Page 507 - The news he had to tell to one who had been two full years without any tidings from Europe made my whole frame thrill. The terrible fate that had befallen France, the telegraphic cables successfully laid in the Atlantic, the election of General Grant, the death of good Lord Clarendon — my constant friend, the proof that Her Majesty's Government had not forgotten me in voting 1000?. for supplies, and many other points of interest, revived emotions that had lain dormant in Manyuema.
Page 705 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast.