19, 20.
[8] II.

Kings xxiv.

16.
[9] Papers on Iron and Steel, 363-4.
[10] Dr.Livingstone brought with him to England a piece of the Zambesi iron, which he sent to a skilled Birmingham blacksmith to test.

The result was, that he pronounced the metal as strongly resembling Swedish or Russian; both of which kinds are smelted with charcoal.

The African iron was found "highly carbonized," and "when chilled it possessed the properties of steel." [11] HOLINSHED, i.517.