Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . the water. Long before this, Livingstone had heard that a party ofMatabele had brought a number of parcels to the south bankof the Zambesi, and left them there in the care of the Mako-lolo.^ The two tribes are sworn enemies, and the Makololowould not believe that Mr. Moffat had sent these goods to , as the bearers told them. The Matabele an-swered : Here are the goods; we place them now before you, and ifyou leave them to perish the guilt will
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . the water. Long before this, Livingstone had heard that a party ofMatabele had brought a number of parcels to the south bankof the Zambesi, and left them there in the care of the Mako-lolo.^ The two tribes are sworn enemies, and the Makololowould not believe that Mr. Moffat had sent these goods to , as the bearers told them. The Matabele an-swered : Here are the goods; we place them now before you, and ifyou leave them to perish the guilt will be 3ours. After much divination, and with fear and trembling, theMakololo, who feared some attempt to bewitch them, built ahut over the parcels, and there Livingstone found them safeon his return in September, 1855, exactly a year after theyreached that destination. Among other things, there was acopy of an address by Sir Eoderick Murchison before theRoyal Geographical Society, in which he stated his convictionthat the interior of Africa was not a vast plateau, but a vastbasin, flanked by mountains and highlands. This was the very. LIVINGSTONE THE MISSIONARY. 335 same conclusion to which Livingstone had come, althoughwith infinitely more difficulty: In his easy-chair he had forestalled me by three years,though I had been working hard through jungle, marsh, andfever, and since the light dawned upon my mind at Dilolo, hadbeen cherishing the pleasing idea that I should be the first tosuggest the idea that the interior of Africa was a wateryplateau of less elevation than flanking hilly ranges. From this point they went directly to Linyanti, where themen who had accompanied him were at last able to tell theirown people of the wonderful things that they had seen. Theyhad gone to the end of the world, and had only turned backwhen there was no more land. Then you reached Ma-Eobert (as Mrs. Livingstone wascalled by them, because her eldest child was named Robert)?asked one eagerly. The
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