How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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At Intervals The Condition Of
The Hard-Pressed Band Was Made Worse By The Heartless Desertion
Of Some Of Its
Members, who more than once departed with the
Doctor's personal kit, changes of clothes, linen, &c. With more
or less
Misfortunes constantly dogging his footsteps, he traversed
in safety the countries of the Babisa, Bobemba, Barungu, Ba-ulungu,
and Lunda.
In the country of Lunda lives the famous Cazembe, who was first
made known to Europeans by Dr. Lacerda, the Portuguese traveller.
Cazembe is a most intelligent prince; he is a tall, stalwart man,
who wears a peculiar kind of dress, made of crimson print, in the
form of a prodigious kilt. In this state dress, King Cazembe
received Dr. Livingstone, surrounded by his chiefs and body-guards.
A chief, who had been deputed by the King and elders to discover
all about the white man, then stood up before the assembly, and
in a loud voice gave the result of the inquiry he had instituted.
He had heard that the white man had come to look for waters,
for rivers, and seas; though he could not understand what the
white man could want with such things, he had no doubt that the
object was good. Then Cazembe asked what the Doctor proposed
doing, and where he thought of going. The Doctor replied that
he had thought of proceeding south, as he had heard of lakes
and rivers being in that direction. Cazembe asked, "What can you
want to go there for?
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