David Livingstone
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gage them to apply themselves to industrial pursuits, and to the cultivation of their lands, with a view to the production of raw material to be exported to England in exchange for British manufactures ; and it was hoped that by encouraging the natives to occupy themselves in the development of the resources of the country, a considerable advance might be made towards the extinction of the slave trade." CHAPTER X. FAMILY PARTING. LIVINGSTONE'S career had not any " resting points," but it had its distinct stages, and his arrival in Se- bituane's country, the region of the Makololo, marks one of them. It suggests a brief halt for rapid review, whither he has come, what he has done, and what he may be hoping to be able to do. He had come to a terra incognita; to a vast region which, in the maps of his time, w
...as not marked as containing lakes or rivers, mountains or valleys, cities, towns, or villages, but was simply a blank, it might be a wilderness. One portion, indeed, of the region he penetrated was marked in the maps as the " Kalahari Desert," but the countries he has passed through are far from being in accord with the ordinary idea of deserts?trackless expanses of barren sand. He has filled in the map for many hundreds of miles with the names of the lakes, rivers, and towns he has discovered, and has revealed the existence of large populations in the before unknown lands. Taking the centre of the country of the Makololo to be about 15 south latitude, and 25 east longitude, he has reached a point about 750 miles north from his base at Kolobeng; he is about 1,300 miles north of the southern sea-board at which he landed, and on a line of about 2,000 miles in length, between the Atlantic on the west, and the Indian Ocean on the east. Among his notable discoveries ar...
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