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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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the Wesleyan and othersocieties, so that now, in a land which was formerly the theatreof rapine and murder, there is a healthy civilizing in fluenceexercised over many thousands of people. Moffats account of his various missionary journeys is highlyinteresting; but it would*be useless to follow them in detail,since most of the region which he traversed, and many of thetribes which he met, were subsequently examined more fullyby other travellers, and are described in preceding chapters.The only other extract which we shall make from his narrativewill be the following description of a curious people who livein trees—a tribe never before seen by a white man-r-whom MOFFAT, THE MISSIONARY. 487 he fell in with on a journey which he undertook in 1829 to thecountry of the Matsebele, lying in the unknown territory north-east of the Kuruman, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers.Just before reaching the frontier of the Matsebele country,the party encamped beside a fine rivulet. My attention,
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MOSHESH, CHIEF OP THE BASUTOS. says Moffat, Was arrested by a beautiful and gigantic treestanding in a defile leading into an extensive and woodyravine between a high range of mountains. Seeing some in-dividuals employed on the ground under its shade, and theconical points of what looked like houses in miniature pro-truding through its evergreen foliage, I proceeded thither, andfound that the tree was inhabited by several families of Ba-kones, the aborigines of the country. I ascended by thenotched trunk, and found, to my amazement, no less than 488 MOFFAT, THE MISSIONARY. seventeen of these aerial abodes, and three others unfinishedOn reaching the topmost hut, about thirty feet from the ground,I entered and sat down. Its only furniture was the hay whichcovered the floor, a spear, a spoon, and a bowlful of locusts.Not having eaten anything that day, and, from the novelty ofmy situation, not wishing to return immediately to the wagons,I asked a woman who sat at the door with a babe at

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