[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link book
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873

CHAPTER IX
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It will ease the men's feet when it does fall.

They call out earnestly for it, "Come, come with hail!" and prepare their huts for it.
_31st October, 1872._--Through a long pass after we had climbed over Winelao.

Came to an islet one and a half mile long, called Kapessa, and then into a long pass.

The population of Megunda must have been prodigious, for all the stones have been cleared, and every available inch of soil cultivated.
The population are said to have been all swept away by the Matuta.
Going south we came to a very large arm of the Lake, with a village at the end of it in a stockade.

This arm is seven or eight miles long and about two broad.


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