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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Slaves From Manyuema Command A Higher Price Than Those Of Any
Other Country, Because Of Their Fine Forms And General Docility.
The Women, The Doctor Said Repeatedly, Are Remarkably Pretty
Creatures, And Have Nothing, Except The Hair, In Common With
The Negroes Of The West Coast.
They are of very light colour,
have fine noses, well-cut and not over-full lips, while the
prognathous jaw is uncommon.
These women are eagerly sought
after as wives by the half-castes of the East Coast, and even
the pure Omani Arabs do not disdain to take them in marriage.
To the north of Manyuema, Livingstone came to the light-
complexioned race, of the colour of Portuguese, or our own
Louisiana quadroons, who are very fine people, and singularly
remarkable for commercial "'cuteness" and sagacity. The women
are expert divers for oysters, which are found in great abundance
in the Lualaba.
Rua, at a place called Katanga, is rich in copper. The copper-mines
of this place have been worked for ages. In the bed of a stream,
gold has been found, washed down in pencil-shaped pieces or in
particles as large as split peas. Two Arabs have gone thither
to prospect for this metal; but, as they are ignorant of the art
of gulch-mining, it is scarcely possible that they will succeed.
From these highly important and interesting discoveries, Dr.
Livingstone was turned back, when almost on the threshold of
success, by the positive refusal of his men to accompany him further.
They were afraid to go on unless accompanied by a large force of
men; and, as these were not procurable in Manyuema, the Doctor
reluctantly turned his face towards Ujiji.
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