Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla (1900) (14742576786)

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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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to the centre of the country. Livingstone again returned to Kolobeng; but as the Boerswould not allow the peaceable instruction of the natives there,and since it would have been extremely hazardous to exposeEuropean lives in a region so unhealthy as the protected por-tions of Sebituanes country, he resolved to send his family toEngland, and to return alone that he might explore the countryin search of a healthy district, which should prove a centre ti£civilization, and open up a path to the interior from either theeast or west coast. The Directors of the London MissionarySociety cordially approved of his project, and left the matter 106 LIVINGSTONES EARLIER JOURNEYS, entirely to his own discretion. He accordingly went to theCape, with his wife and children, in April, 1852, having beenabsent eleven years from the scenes of civilization; and havingplaced them on board a homeward-bound ship, he returned, inthe hope that in two years they would meet again. But itproved to be nearly five.
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CHAPTER VTL LIVINGSTONES JOURNEY ACROSS THE CONTINENT. Having sent his family home to England, as narrated in thepreceding chapter, Livingstone started from Cape Town on hisnext jovrney, in tho beginning of J ane, 1852. This joarney ex-tended from the southern extremity of the continent io St.Paul de Loando, the capital of Angola, on the west coast, andthence across Central Africa in an oblique direction to Kili-mane (Quilimane), on the east coast. He used the usual con-veyance of the country, the heavy Cape wagon, drawn by tenoxen, and was accompanied by two Christian Bechuanas fromKuruman,—of whose fidelity he speaks in strong terms,—bytwo Bakwain men, and two young girls, who, having come asnurses with his children to the Cape, were returning to theirhome at Kolobeng. They proceeded very slowly, and the partsof the colony through which they passed wTere extremely bareand sterile. The cattle suffered fatally from the tsetse, whichput the traveller to inconvenience, as such an oc