Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean

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LIYINGSTOIE'S ^--^ IN SOUTH AFRICA;

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Introduction

Personal Sketch — Highland Ancestors — Family Traditions — Grandfather removes to the Lowlands — Parents — Early Labors and EflForts — Evening School — Love of Reading — Religious Impressions — Medical Education — Youthful Travels — Geology — Mental Discipline — Study in Glasgow — London Missionary Society — Native Village — Medical Diploma — Theological Studies — Departure for Africa — No Claim to Literary Accomplishments Page 9

Chapter I

The Bakwdin Country — Study of the Language — Mabdtsa Station — A Lion Encounter — Virus of the Teeth of Lions — Sech^le — Baptism of Seehele — Opposition of the Natives — Purchase Land at Chonudne — Relations with the People — Their Intelligence — Prolonged Drought — Consequent Trials — The Hunting Hopo IS

CHAPTER IL

The Boers — Their Treatment of the Natives — The Tale of the Cannon — The Boers threaten Seehele — In violation of Treaty, they expel Missionaries — They attack the Bakwains — Their Mode of Fighting — The Natives killed and the School-Children carried into Slavery — Destruction of English Property — Continued Hostility of the Boers — The Journey North — Preparations — Fellow-Travellers 28

Chapter III

Departure from Kolobeng, 1st June, 1849 — Companions — Our Route — SerotH, a Fountain in the Desert — The Hyena — The Chief Sekomi — Dangers — The Wandering Guide — Cross Purposes — Slow Progress — Want of Water — The Salt- Pan at Nchokotsa — The Mirage — Reach the River Zouga — The Quakers of Africa — Discovery of Lake Ngami, 1st August, 1849 — Its Extent — Small Depth of Water — The Bamangwato and their Chief — Desire to visit Sebituane, the Chief of the Makololo — Refusal of Lechulatebe to furnish us with Guides — The Banks of the Zouga 34

Chapter IV

Leave Kolobeng again for the Country of Sebituane — Reach the Zouga — The Tsetse— A Party of Englishmen— Death of Mr. Rider— Obtain Guides- Children fall sick with Fever — Relinquish the Attempt to reach Sebituane — Return to Kolobeng— Make a Third Start thence— Reach Nchokotsa— Our

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Guide Shobo— The Banaj6a — An Ugly Chief— The Tsetse— Bite fatal to Domestic Animals, but harmless to Wild Animals and Man — Operation of the Poison — Losses caused by it— The Makololo — Our Meeting with Sebituane — His Sudden Illness and Death — Succeeded by his Daughter— Her Friendliness to us — Discovery, in June, 1851, of the Zambesi flowing in the Centre of the Continent — Determine to send Family to England — Return to the Cape in April, 1852— Safe Transit through the Caffre Country during Hostilities— Need of a " Special Correspondent" — Kindness of the London Missionary Society — Assistance afforded by the Astronomer-Royal at the Cape Page 44