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David Livingstone
David Livingstone was a Scottish explorer, missionary, and physician known for his extensive travels in Africa during the 19th century. He is famous for his book "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa" (1857), which recounted his journeys across the African continent. Livingstone aimed to spread Christianity, promote British colonial interests, and abolish the slave trade in Africa. His legacy also includes his role in mapping unexplored regions, including the source of the Nile River, although his expeditions often came with significant personal challenges.
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PREFACE. It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored, with their river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen, and all others interested in the cause of humanity, the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases; a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have...
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Chapter 1. The Bakwain CountryвÐâStudy of the LanguageвÐâNative Ideas regarding CometsвÐâMabotsa StationвÐâA Lion EncounterвÐâVirus of the Teeth of LionsвÐâNames of the Bechuana TribesвÐâSecheleвÐâHis AncestorsвÐâObtains the ChieftainshipвÐâHis Marriage and GovernmentвÐâThe...
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CHAPTER I. Bad beginning of the new year. Dangerous illness. Kindness of Arabs. Complete helplessness. Arrive at Tanganyika. The Doctor is conveyed in canoes. Kasanga Islet. Cochin-China fowls. Beaches Ujiji. Receives some stores. Plundering hands. Slow recovery. Writes despatches. Refusal of Arabs to take letters. Thani bin Suellim. A den of slavers. Puzzling current in Lake Tanganyika. Letters sent...
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INTRODUCTION. In the midst of the universal sorrow caused by the intelligence that Dr. Livingstone had lost his life at the furthest point to which he had penetrated in his search for the true sources of the Nile, a faint hope was indulged that some of his journals might survive the disaster: this hope, I rejoice to say, has been realized beyond the most sanguine expectations. It is due, in the first...
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