David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . lakes, and that theselakes had disappeared in the fissures which the forcesof upheaval had created in the elevated ridges which rimthe central basin. As instances of similar outlets, theCongo and the Orange Rivers, flowing through deepand narrow gorges on reaching the external ridge, maybe cited. In passing over the apex of the ridge in theneighbourhood of the Zambesi, Livingstone found itfive hundred feet in height, and these eastern highlandsmore healthy than those he had already discovered inthe west. There was, moreover, the additional advan
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . lakes, and that theselakes had disappeared in the fissures which the forcesof upheaval had created in the elevated ridges which rimthe central basin. As instances of similar outlets, theCongo and the Orange Rivers, flowing through deepand narrow gorges on reaching the external ridge, maybe cited. In passing over the apex of the ridge in theneighbourhood of the Zambesi, Livingstone found itfive hundred feet in height, and these eastern highlandsmore healthy than those he had already discovered inthe west. There was, moreover, the additional advantageof a highway for civilizing and commercial purposes inthe great Zambesi River. He had therefore at lastcome to a region in which he might look with somecertainty of success for a district entirely suitable toEuropeans, and capable of being utilized as a greatmissionary settlement and centre. And at this stage of the journey the natives wereboth hospitable and amenable to influence. ^All,he says, * expressed great satisfaction on hearing my. 64 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. message, as I directed their attention to Jesus as theirSaviour, whose word is, Peace on earth and goodwill to men. They called out, We are tired of flight;give us rest and sleep. Later on, however, thenatives, mistaking him for a half-caste Portuguese,showed a good deal of hostility, and Livingstonevery narrowly escaped with his life from the peopleof Mpende, who dwelt near the confluence of theLoangwa and Zambesi. The country through which they w^ere passing wasexceedingly beautiful. At first furrowed by wide fertileglens, and afterwards ^opening out into a luxuriantplain, abounding with animal life and vegetation, andpossessing the inestimable advantage of salubrity, theDoctor felt that he had at last reached the land ofpromise for the missionary cause. Many of the hillswere of pure white marble, and pink marble formedthe bed of more than one of the contributory the plains enormous herds of zebras, b
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