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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

CHAPTER VIII
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One Mosi-oa-tunya, however, is quite enough for a continent.
We had now an opportunity of seeing more of the Batoka, than we had on the highland route to our north.

They did not wait till the evening before offering food to the strangers.

The aged wife of the headman of a hamlet, where we rested at midday, at once kindled a fire, and put on the cooking-pot to make porridge.

Both men and women are to be distinguished by greater roundness of feature than the other natives, and the custom of knocking out the upper front teeth gives at once a distinctive character to the face.

Their colour attests the greater altitude of the country in which many of them formerly lived.


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