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

CHAPTER III
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The accustomed presents are exchanged with civil ceremoniousness; until our men, wearied and hungry, call out, "English do not buy slaves, they buy food," and then the people bring meal, maize, fowls, batatas, yams, beans, beer, for sale.
The Manganja are an industrious race; and in addition to working in iron, cotton, and basket-making, they cultivate the soil extensively.

All the people of a village turn out to labour in the fields.

It is no uncommon thing to see men, women, and children hard at work, with the baby lying close by beneath a shady bush.

When a new piece of woodland is to be cleared, they proceed exactly as farmers do in America.

The trees are cut down with their little axes of soft native iron; trunks and branches are piled up and burnt, and the ashes spread on the soil.


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