. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. Tattoo on Women. but some of the young women have raised lines crossingeach other on the arms, which must have cost great pain :they have also small cuts, covering in some cases the wholebody. The Maravi or Manganja here may be said to be intheir primitive state. We find them very liberal with their * A fine fibre derived from the shoots of a shrub (Securidaca Longi-pedunculata). 12G LIVINGSTONES LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. V, food: we o-ive a cloth to the headman of the village wherewe pass the night, and he gives a goat, or at least cook
. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. Tattoo on Women. but some of the young women have raised lines crossingeach other on the arms, which must have cost great pain :they have also small cuts, covering in some cases the wholebody. The Maravi or Manganja here may be said to be intheir primitive state. We find them very liberal with their * A fine fibre derived from the shoots of a shrub (Securidaca Longi-pedunculata). 12G LIVINGSTONES LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. V, food: we o-ive a cloth to the headman of the village wherewe pass the night, and he gives a goat, or at least cookedfowls and porridge, at night and morning. We were invited by Gombwa in the afternoon to speakthe same words to his people that we used to himself in themorning. He nudged a boy to respond, which is consideredpolite, though he did it only with a rough hem ! at the endof each sentence. As for our general discourse we mentionour relationship to our Father: His love to all His children—the guilt of selling any of His children—the consequence ; it beg
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