A Popular Account Of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition To The Zambesi By David Livingston
































































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Touching at Mohilla, one of the Comoro Islands, on our return, we
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Touching At Mohilla, One Of The Comoro Islands, On Our Return, We Found A Mixed Race Of Arabs, Africans, And Their Conquerors, The Natives Of Madagascar.

Being Mahometans, they have mosques and schools, in which we were pleased to see girls as well as boys taught to read the Koran.

The teacher said he was paid by the job, and received ten dollars for teaching each child to read. The clever ones learn in six months; but the dull ones take a couple of years. We next went over to Johanna for our friends; and, after a sojourn of a few days at the beautiful Comoro Islands, we sailed for the Kongone mouth of the Zambesi with Bishop Mackenzie and his party. We reached the coast in seven days, and passed up the Zambesi to the Shire.

The "Pioneer," constructed under the skilful supervision of Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker and the late Admiral Washington, warm-hearted and highly esteemed friends of the Expedition, was a very superior vessel, and well suited for our work in every respect, except in her draught of water. Five feet were found to be too much for the navigation of the upper part of the Shire. Designed to draw three feet only, the weight necessary to impart extra strength, and fit her for the ocean, brought her down two feet more, and caused us a great deal of hard and vexatious work, in laying out anchors, and toiling at the capstan to get her off sandbanks.

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