[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 book
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

CHAPTER III
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He is a smith, or rather a nothing, for unless he could smelt iron he would be entirely without materials to work with.
_14th-28th July, 1866._--One day, calling at Mataka's, I found as usual a large crowd of idlers, who always respond with a laugh to everything he utters as wit.

He asked, if he went to Bombay what ought he to take to secure some gold?
I replied, "Ivory," he rejoined, "Would slaves not be a good speculation ?" I replied that, "if he took slaves there for sale, they would put him in prison." The idea of the great Mataka in "chokee" made him wince, and the laugh turned for once against him.

He said that as all the people from the coast crowd to him, they ought to give him something handsome for being here to supply their wants.

I replied, if he would fill the fine well-watered country we had passed over with people instead of sending them off to Kilwa, he would confer a benefit on visitors, but we had been starved on the way to him; and I then told him what the English would do in road-making in a fine country like this.

This led us to talk of railways, ships, ploughing with oxen--the last idea struck him most.


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