[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link bookThe Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 CHAPTER X 42/58
to 100 lbs., weight all over the country, and the inhabitants draw the copper into wire for armlets and leglets. Gold is also found at Katanga, and specimens were lately sent to the Sultan of Zanzibar. As we come down from the watershed towards Tanganyika we enter an area of the earth's surface still disturbed by internal igneous action.
A hot fountain in the country of Nsama is often used to boil cassava and maize.
Earthquakes are by no means rare.
We experienced the shock of one while at Chitimba's village, and they extend as far as Casembe's.
I felt as if afloat, and as huts would not fall there was no sense of danger; some of them that happened at night set the fowls a cackling.
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