The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa . re it had gone horizontally. January 30th.—Northward through almost trackless drippingforests and across oozing bogs. January 31st.—Through forest, but gardens of larger size than 154 LIVINGSTONES LAST JOURNALS. in Lobisa now appear. A man offered a thick bar of copper forsale, a foot by three inches. The hard-leafed acacia and mohempiabound. The valleys, with the oozes, have a species of grass,having pink seed-stalks and yellow seeds: this is very midday we came to the Lopiri, the rivulet which waters Chi-tapangas stockade,
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa . re it had gone horizontally. January 30th.—Northward through almost trackless drippingforests and across oozing bogs. January 31st.—Through forest, but gardens of larger size than 154 LIVINGSTONES LAST JOURNALS. in Lobisa now appear. A man offered a thick bar of copper forsale, a foot by three inches. The hard-leafed acacia and mohempiabound. The valleys, with the oozes, have a species of grass,having pink seed-stalks and yellow seeds: this is very midday we came to the Lopiri, the rivulet which waters Chi-tapangas stockade, and soon after found that his village has atriple stockade, the inner being defended also by a deep broadditch and hedge of a solanaceous thorny shrub. It is about twohundred yards broad and five hundred long. The huts not plant-ed very closely. The rivulets were all making for the Chambeze. They containno fish, except very small ones—probably fry. On the other, orwestern side of the ridge, near which Malemba is situated, fishabound worth Chitapaugwa. Chitapangwa, or Motoka, as he is also called, sent to inquire ifwe wanted an audience. We must take something in our handsthe first time we came before so great a man. Being tired frommarching, I replied, Not till the evening, and sent notice at5 of my coming. We passed through the inner stockade,and then on to an enormous hut, where sat Chitapangwa, with
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