He mentioned this, as one would a fact of natural history, any doubt being quite out of the question.

His people, too, believed in him, for they bathed in the river without the slightest fear of crocodiles, the chief having placed a powerful medicine there, which protected them from the bite of these terrible reptiles.
Leaving the vessel opposite Chibisa's village, Drs.

Livingstone and Kirk and a number of the Makololo started on foot for Lake Shirwa.

They travelled in a northerly direction over a mountainous country.

The people were far from being well-disposed to them, and some of their guides tried to mislead them, and could not be trusted.