The life and labors of David Livingstone, LL. D., D.C.L., covering his entire career in Southern and Central Africa. Carefully prepared from the most authentic sources...The whole rendered clear and (14801987873)

Identifier: lifelaborsofdavi1875cham (find matches)
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Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Chambliss, J. E
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard bros. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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f the villages with whom hecame in contact the great and irreparable mischief they weredoing themselves by hearkening to the voice of their tempters ;warning them that the trade which seemed to enrich them forthe time was rapidly depopulating their villages, leaving theirgardens desolate and diminishing their strength. These headmen seemed to be a little uneasy about it. They recognized theunrighteousness of selling their people even according to theirrude ideas of justice and wisdom, but they were up to the oldtrick of blaming some one else for their faults. Village aftervillage which was passed as the party journeyed along theRovuma was found deserted. One of these villages had onlybeen deserted a few hours before Livingstone entered it; its in-habitants had moved off in a body towards the Xotembue coun-try, where food was more abundant, and a poor little girl wasfound in one of the huts. She was too weak to travel, and hadbeen left behind; and there is a wealth of tenderness in the
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!iV! ■*-■ v:« .fC11*!!!!, THE MAKOA. 437 simple entry which is found in the great travellers journal— probably she was an orphan. His own children were faraway; their mother had gone on to her rest; he was toiling forthe redemption of Africa. Who knows with what depth offeeling the great man, sitting in his lonely hut that night, wrotethe sad-sounding sentence about a poor little abandoned Africanchild?—probably she was an orphan. Surely our heartsought not to be hard toward these unfortunate people. Thechildren of Africa may not have evinced the same talents, maynot indeed possess the same capacities as those about our fire-sides, but they are children, needing tenderness and love. The Makoa, who occupy the section along the Rovuma, livedin the southeast in former times, and were distinguished by thetattoo mark, which was in the shape of a half-moon. Bat sincethey have lived in the Waiyau country, they have adopted marksmore like theirs. They are less scrupulous about their