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
































































 -   A few
of the men were busy cleaning, sorting, spinning, and weaving cotton.
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A Few Of The Men Were Busy Cleaning, Sorting, Spinning, And Weaving Cotton. This Is A Common Sight In Nearly Every Village, And Each Family Appears To Have Its Patch Of Cotton, As Our Own Ancestors In Scotland Had Each His Patch Of Flax.

Near sunset an immense flock of the large species of horn-bill (Buceros cristatus) came here to roost on the great trees which skirt the edge of the cliff.

They leave early in the morning, often before sunrise, for their feeding-places, coming and going in pairs. They are evidently of a loving disposition, and strongly attached to each other, the male always nestling close beside his mate. A fine male fell to the ground, from fear, at the report of Dr. Kirk's gun; it was caught and kept on board; the female did not go off in the mornings to feed with the others, but flew round the ship, anxiously trying, by her plaintive calls, to induce her beloved one to follow her: she came again in the evenings to repeat the invitations. The poor disconsolate captive soon refused to eat, and in five days died of grief, because he could not have her company. No internal injury could be detected after death.

Chibisa and his wife, with a natural show of parental feeling, had told the Doctor, on his previous visit, that a few years before some of Chisaka's men had kidnapped and sold their little daughter, and that she was now a slave to the padre at Tette.

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