[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 X
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It runs into the Lofu, which river rises in Isunga country at a mountain called Kwitette.

The Chambeze rises east of this, and at the same place as Louzua.
Chiwe presented a small goat with crooked legs and some millet flour, but he grumbled at the size of the fathom cloth I gave.

I offered another fathom, and a bundle of needles, but he grumbled at this too, and sent it back.

On this I returned his goat and marched.
[The road lay through the same country among low hills, for several miles, till they came on the _1st December_ to a rivulet called Lovu Katanta, where curiously enough they found a nutmeg-tree in full bearing.

A wild species is found at Angola on the West Coast and it was probably of this description, and not the same species as that which is cultivated in the East.


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