The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa (1875) (14592058760)

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Title: The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa

Year: 1875 (1870s)

Authors: Horace Waller

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Publisher: Harper

Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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he coast will begin to travel afterthree days of feasting. It has been so rainy I could have donelittle, though I had had people. January 22d—A party is reported to be on the way hither.This is likely enough, but reports are so often false that doubtsarise. Mohamad says he will give men when the party of Has-san! comes, or when Dugumbe arrives. January 24:th.—Mohamad mentioned this morning that Moene-mokaia, and Moeneghera, his brother, brought about thirty slavesfrom Katanga to Ujiji, affected with swelled thyroid glands, or^^goiire and that drinking the water of Tanganyika proved aperfect cure to all in a very few days. Sometimes the swellingwent down in two days after they began to use the water, intheir ordinary way of cooking, washing, and drinking: possiblysome ingredient of the hot fountain that flows into it effects thecure, for the people on the Lofubu, in Nsamas country, had theswelling. The water in bays is decidedly brackish, while thebody of Tanganyika is quite fresh.

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GREAT MOETALITY FROM CHOLERA. 355 The odor of putrid elephants meat in a house kills parrots:the Manyuema keep it till quite rotten, but know its fatal effectson their favorite birds. January 21th.—Safari, or caravan, reported to be near, and mymen and goods at Ujiji. January 28tk.—A safari, under Hassani and Ebed, arrived withnews of great mortality by cholera (towny) at Zanzibar, and mybrother, whom I conjecture to be Dr. Kirk, has fallen. Themen I wrote for have come to Ujiji, but did not know my where-abouts : when told by Katombas men, they will come here, andbring my much-longed-for letters and goods. Seventy thousandvictims in Zanzibar alone from cholera, and it spread inland to theMasoi and Ugogo! Cattle shivered, and fell dead: the fishes in thesea died in great numbers: here the fowls were first seized, and died,but not from cholera, only from its companion. Thirty men per-ished in our small camp, made still smaller by all the able men be-ing off trading at the Metamba,

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