Identifier: narrativeofexped01livi (find matches)
Title: Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Livingstone, Charles, 1821-1873, (from old catalog) joint author
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on the high trees on both banks. Large pots of it, very good and clear, were offered in exchange for a very little cloth. No wax was brought for sale; there being no market for this commodity, it is probably thrown away as useless. At Michi we lose the table-land which, up to this point,bounds the view on both sides of the river, as it were, withranges of flat-topped hills, 600 or 800 feet high; and to this plateau a level fertile plain succeeds, on which stand detach-ed granite hills. That portion of the table-land on the rightbank seems to bend away to the south, still preserving the appearance of a hill range. The height opposite extends afew miles farther west, and then branches off in a northerly direction. A few small pieces of coal were picked up on the sand-banks, showing that this useful mineral exists on the Eovuma, or on some of its tributaries: the natives know that it will burn, At the Lakelet Chidia we noticed the same sandstone rock, with fossil wood on it, which we have on the
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Chap. XXI. A SMART YOUNG WATERWOMAN. 465 Zambesi, and knew to be a sure evidence of coal beneath.We mentioned this at the time to Captain Gardner, and our finding coal now seemed a verification of what we then said; the coal-field probably extends from the Zambesi to the Rovuma, if not beyond it. Some of the rocks lower down have the permanent water-line three feet above the present height of the water. A few miles west of the Makoa of Matingula we camea gain among the Makonde, but now of good repute. War and slavery have driven them to seek refuge on the sand-banks. A venerable-looking old man hailed us as we passed,and asked us if we were going by without speaking. Welanded, and he laid down his gun and came to us; he wasaccompanied by his brother, who shook hands with every one in the boat, as he had seen people do at Kilwa. Then you have seen white men before? we said. Yes, replied the polite African, but never people of your quality. These men were very black, and wore but little clothing

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