Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864John Murray, 1865 - 608 páginas |
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abundant Africa Ajawa animals appear Arabs bank Batoka beer Bishop boat brought buffaloes called canoe-men canoes Cape carried cataracts CHAP Chibisa's Chief cloth Coast corn cotton crocodiles cultivated elephants English Expedition feet fever fire fish grass headman herd highlands hills hippopotamus island ivory journey Kebrabasa killed Kirk Kongone labour Lady Lake Nyassa lakelet land Linyanti live Livingstone Magomero maize Makololo Manganja Mazaro Mazitu meat miles Mission Missionaries Moloka morning Mosambique Mosi-oa-tunya mountains mouth muskets natives nearly never night Nyanja party passed poison Portuguese Quillimane river rocks round Rovuma seen Sekeletu Senna sent Sequasha Sesheke ship Shire Shire Valley shore shot Shupanga side slave-trade slaves soon spears stream Tette told trade travelling trees tribes usually valley Victoria Falls village waterbuck wild women yards Zambesi Zanzibar Zulus
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Página 11 - Europeans, setting an example of consistent moral conduct to all who may congregate around the settlement; treating the people with kindness, and relieving their wants; teaching them to make experiments in agriculture, explaining to them the more simple arts, imparting to them religious instruction, as far as they are capable of receiving it, and inculcating peace and...
Página 96 - ... thoroughly enjoyed their tour and the fine scenery through which it led them. This is so well known, and has been so often described, that it is not necessary to do much more than record the names of the places they visited. Leaving Elfenau on the 9th, they slept that night at Brienz, from whence next morning their pedestrian tour began. Passing by the BriinigPass and...
Página 458 - The sight of this desert, but eighteen months ago a well -peopled valley, now literally strewn with human bones, forced the conviction upon us that the destruction of human life in the middle passage, however great, constitutes but a small portion of the waste, and made us feel that unless the slave-trade — that monster iniquity which has so long brooded over Africa — is put down, lawful commerce cannot be established.
Página 357 - One little boy, with the simplicity of childhood, said to our men, " The others tied and starved us, you cut the ropes and tell us to eat; what sort of people are you ? Where did you come from ?" Two of the women had been shot the day before for attempting to untie the thongs. This, the rest were told, was to prevent them from attempting to escape.
Página 596 - In reference to the status of the Africans among the nations of the earth, we have seen nothing to justify the notion that they are of a different 'breed' or 'species
Página 542 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 356 - Mbame had spoken to us, the slave party, a long line of manacled men, women, and children, came wending their way round the hill and into the valley, on the side of which the village stood. The black drivers, armed with muskets, and bedecked with various articles of finery, marched jauntily in the front, middle, and rear of the line ; some of them blowing exultant notes out of long tin horns. They seemed to feel that they were doing a very noble thing, and might proudly march with an air of triumph.
Página 253 - Mosi-oa-tunya, or the Victoria Falls. "Looking from Garden Island down to the bottom of the abyss, nearly half a mile of water, which has fallen over that portion of the falls to our right, or west of our point of...
Página 508 - And, consequently, the existence of civilisation at this day is a kind of monument attesting the fact that some instruction from above must, at some time or other, have been supplied to mankind. And the most probable conclusion is, that Man, when first created, or very shortly afterwards, was advanced by the Creator Himself, to a state above that of a mere savage.
Página 254 - ... the east. In this gigantic, zigzag, yet narrow trough, the rocks are all so sharply cut and angular, that the idea at once arises that the hard basaltic trap must have been riven into its present shape by a force acting from beneath, and that this probably took place, when the ancient inland seas were let off by similar fissures nearer the ocean.