David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . ^ eschew the evil and cleave to the , in his compassion, made allowances forthis; and those who have taken up his work dowell to remember it. Is the civilized Christian soconsistent that he can afford to cast a stone at thestark Heathen ? A hundred miles as the crow flies from theconfluence of the Shire and Zambesi—or, if themeanderings of the river are taken into account,some two hundred miles from that point—furthernavigation was prevented by the lowest of thoselarge cataracts which, from gratitude and with appro-priateness, Li
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . ^ eschew the evil and cleave to the , in his compassion, made allowances forthis; and those who have taken up his work dowell to remember it. Is the civilized Christian soconsistent that he can afford to cast a stone at thestark Heathen ? A hundred miles as the crow flies from theconfluence of the Shire and Zambesi—or, if themeanderings of the river are taken into account,some two hundred miles from that point—furthernavigation was prevented by the lowest of thoselarge cataracts which, from gratitude and with appro-priateness, Livingstone afterwards called the MurchisonCataracts. As the natives were too suspicious—theykept watch over the little party night and day—for. 84 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. it to be prudent to advance along the bank, the Doctorsent friendly messages to the neighbouring chiefs, witha view to future relations, and returned to Tcte. A month later, he and Kirk again arrived at the footof the falls, and, travelling in a north-easterly directionacross country, they came to the shores of LakeShirwa on the 18th of April, 1859. This lake had neverbeen heard of before, and consequently it was a genuine,an absolute discovery. Some seventy miles in length andtwenty in breadth. Lake Shirwa lies amid beautifulscenery. The lofty ridge of Zomba, nine thousandfeet in height, which separates the lake from the Shire,is its western boundary; and on the east rises theMalanje chain, a range of equal magnitude. But theimportance of this discovery was enhanced tenfold whenLivingstone learnt from the natives around its shoresthat there was another lake to the north, only separatedfrom the Shirwa by a narrow belt of land, and com-pared with which the Shirwa
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