Identifier: missionarytravel04livi (find matches)
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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case of separation, the woman returns to her father's family, and the husband receives back what he gave for her. In nearly all cases a man gives a price for the wife, and, in cases of mulattoes, as much as 601. is often given to the parents of the bride. This is one of the evils the Bishop was trying to remedy. In cases of death the body is kept several days, and there is a grand concourse of both sexes, with beating of drums, dances, and debauchery, kept up with feasting, &c, according to the means of the relatives. The great ambition of many of the blacks of Angola is to give their friends an expensive funeral. Often-when one is asked to sell a pig, he replies, I am keeping it in case of the death of any of my friends. A pig is usually slaughtered and eaten on the last day of the ceremonies, and its head thrown into the nearest stream or river. A native will sometimes appear intoxicated on these occasions, and, if blamed for his intemperance, will reply, Why! my mother is dead! as if he
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£ ft Chap. XXI. MISCONDUCT OF SLAVES. 413 thought it a sufficient justification. The expenses of funerals are so heavy, that often years elapse before they can defray them. These people are said to be very litigious and obstinate: constant disputes are taking place respecting their lands. A case came before the weekly court of the Commandant, involving property in a palm-tree worth two pence. The judge advised the pursuer to withdraw the case, as the mere expenses of entering it would be much more than the cost of the tree. 0 no, said he; I have a piece of calico with me for the clerk, and money for yourself. Its my right, I will not forego it. The calico itself cost three or four shillings. They rejoice if they can say of an enemy, I took him before the court. My friend Mr. Canto, the Commandant, being seized with fever in a severe form, it afforded me much pleasure to attend him in his sickness, who had been so kind to me in mine. He was for some time in a state of insensibility, and I, having t

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