Identifier: davidlivingstone00houg (find matches)
Title: David Livingstone: the story of one who followed Christ
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Houghton, Louise Seymour, 1838-1920
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: PHiladelphia, Presby. Bd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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superstitious dread of the animalafter which it is called. The first duty on arriving at Mabotsa was to pur-chase a piece of ground. The natives were muchsurprised at the idea of buying land. All land waswith them held for the tribe by their chief, whoallotted to each man such a piece as was suitable.They were quite willing to sell, however, whenLivingstone explained that he wished to avoid allfuture occasions of dispute, as when a foolish chiefbegan to reign and found large and valuable build-ings on the missionaries land, he might wish to claimit all. These reasons were satisfactory. About twen-ty-five dollars worth of goods was given to the tribe,the papers were drawn up, and all parties affixed theirnames or marks. The next business was building.A house fifty-two feet long by twenty wide waserected, Livingstone, his colleague and the school-master, Mebalwe, doing most of the work them-selves. The Bakhatla were more industrious than theother tribes. They had an iron manufactory, to
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HP Zulu Rain-Doctor. THE FIRST STATION. 43 which Livingstone, as a bachelor, was admitted,but married men were excluded, lest they shouldbewitch the iron ! The people had many super-stitious notions, such as belief in charms and med-icines and in the power of the rain-makers. Theyhad hardly any idea of God except that of supe-riority, and often called their chief by the samename. All these things made it the more difficultfor them to understand the teachings of the mis-sionaries. To counteract their superstitious ideas,Livingstone soon began a series of popular lectureson the works of God. I intend to commence, hewrote, with the goodness of God in bestowing ironore, by giving, if I can, a general knowledge of thesimplicity of the substance, and endeavoring to dis-abuse their minds of the idea which prevents them,in general, from reaping the benefit of that mineral,which abounds in their country. There was one serious drawback to the newly-chosen locality. It was infested with lions. T

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