[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 VI
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Next day she was duly honoured by drumming and dancing.[35] Prevalent beliefs seem to be persistent in certain tribes.

That strange idea of property in man that permits him to be sold to another is among the Arabs, Manganja, Makoa, Waiyau, but not among Kaffirs or Zulus, and Bechuanas.

If we exclude the Arabs, two families of Africans alone are slavers on the east side of the Continent.
_30th November, 1866._--We march to Chilunda's or Embora's, still on the Lokuzhwa, now a sand-stream about twenty yards wide, with pools in its bed; its course is pretty much north or N.N.W.We are now near the Loangwa country, covered with a dense dwarf forest, and the people collected in stockades.

This village is on a tongue of land (between Lokuzhwa and another sluggish rivulet), chosen for its strength.

It is close to a hill named Chipemba, and there are ranges of hills both east and west in the distance.


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