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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 pressure should be applied to the upper gum more than to the teeth.
The Manganja are not a sober people: they brew large quantities of beer, and like it well.

Having no hops, or other means of checking fermentation, they are obliged to drink the whole brew in a few days, or it becomes unfit for use.

Great merry-makings take place on these occasions, and drinking, drumming, and dancing continue day and night, till the beer is gone.

In crossing the hills we sometimes found whole villages enjoying this kind of mirth.

The veteran traveller of the party remarked, that he had not seen so much drunkenness during all the sixteen years he had spent in Africa.


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