[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 VII
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32 deg.

1' 30" E.
Altitude above sea (barometer) 5353 feet; Altitude above sea (boiling-point) 5385 feet.
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32.[46] Nothing but famine and famine prices, the people living on mushrooms and leaves.

Of mushrooms we observed that they choose five or six kinds, and rejected ten sorts.

One species becomes as large as the crown of a man's hat; it is pure white, with a blush of brown in the middle of the crown, and is very good roasted; it is named "Motenta;" another, Mofeta; 3rd, Bosefwe; 4th, Nakabausa; 5th, Chisimbe, lobulated, green outside, and pink and fleshy inside; as a relish to others: some experience must have been requisite to enable them to distinguish the good from the noxious, of which they reject ten sorts.
We get some elephants' meat from the people, but high is no name for its condition.


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