Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa By David Livingstone



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When about to leave Moyara on the 25th, he brought a root which,
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When About To Leave Moyara On The 25th, He Brought A Root Which, When Pounded And Sprinkled Over The Oxen, Is Believed To Disgust The Tsetse, So That It Flies Off Without Sucking The Blood.

He promised to show me the plant or tree if I would give him an ox; but, as we

Were traveling, and could not afford the time required for the experiment, so as not to be cheated (as I had too often been by my medical friends), I deferred the investigation till I returned. It is probably but an evanescent remedy, and capable of rendering the cattle safe during one night only. Moyara is now quite a dependent of the Makololo, and my new party, not being thoroughly drilled, forced him to carry a tusk for them. When I relieved him, he poured forth a shower of thanks at being allowed to go back to sleep beneath his skulls.

Next day we came to Namilanga, or "The Well of Joy". It is a small well dug beneath a very large fig-tree, the shade of which renders the water delightfully cool. The temperature through the day was 104 Deg. in the shade and 94 Deg. after sunset, but the air was not at all oppressive. This well received its name from the fact that, in former times, marauding parties, in returning with cattle, sat down here and were regaled with boyaloa, music, and the lullilooing of the women from the adjacent towns.

All the surrounding country was formerly densely peopled, though now desolate and still.

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