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Title: Missionary 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
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, ill Need, Henry, ill Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, ill Picken, Thomas, d. 1870, lithographer Livingstone, David, 1813-1873, inscriber. DSI Vavasseur, Mrs., fl. 1857, former owner. DSI Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910- former owner. DSI Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883, annotator. DSI Larkins, J., binder. DSI Howell, Marmaduke G., former owner. DSI Cooke, Robert, former owner. DSI Day & Son., lithographer T. & R. Annan, photographer. DSI William Clowes and Sons, printer St. Leonards School, former owner. DSI Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Missions
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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uch constant exertiondisturbs them in their nap. They prefer to remain by day in adrowsy yawning state, and, though their eyes are open, theytake little notice of things at a distance. The males utter aloud succession of snorting grunts, which may be heard a mileoff. The canoe in which I was, in passing over a wounded one,elicited a distinct grunting, though the animal lay entirelyunder water. The young, when very little, take their stand on the neck ofthe dam, and the small head, rising above the large, comessoonest to the surface. The dam, knowing the more urgentneed of her calf, comes more frequently to the surface when itis in her care. But in the rivers of Londa, where they aremuch in danger of being shot, even the hippopotamus gains witby experience; for while those in the Zambesi put up theirheads openly to blow, those referred to keep their noses amongwater-plants and breathe so quietly that one would not dream oftheir existence in the river, except by footprints on the banks.

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Chap. XIV. MODE OF SPENDING THE DAY. 243 CHAPTEE XIV. Increasing beauty of the country — Mode of spending the day — The peopleand the falls of Gonye — A Makololo foray — A second prevented, audcaptives delivered up — Politeness and liberality of the people — Therains — Present of oxen — The fugitive Barotse — Sekobinyaues mis-government — Bee-eaters and other birds — Fresh-water sponges — Cur-rent — Death from a lions bite at Libonta — Continued kindness —Arrangements for spending the night during the journey — Cooking andwashing — Abundance of animal life — Different species of birds — Water-fowl — Egyptian geese — Alligators — Narrow escape of one of my men — Superstitious feelings respecting the alligator — Large game — Themost vulnerable spot — Gun medicine — A Sunday — Birds of song —Depravity; its treatment — Wild fruits — Green pigeons — Shoals of fish — Hippopotami. 30th November, 1853.—At Gonye Falls. No rain

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Image from page 288 of “Missionary 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