. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. —We found the people on the Mando tobe Chawa or Ajawa, but not of the Waiyau race: they areManganja, and this is a village of smiths. We got five menreadily to go back and bring up our loads; and the soundof the hammer is constant, showing a great deal of combine agriculture, and hunting with nets, with theirhandicraft. A herd of buffaloes came near the village, and I went andshot one, thus procuring a supply of meat for the wholeparty and villagers too. The hammer which we hear fromdawn till sunset is a large stone, bo
. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. —We found the people on the Mando tobe Chawa or Ajawa, but not of the Waiyau race: they areManganja, and this is a village of smiths. We got five menreadily to go back and bring up our loads; and the soundof the hammer is constant, showing a great deal of combine agriculture, and hunting with nets, with theirhandicraft. A herd of buffaloes came near the village, and I went andshot one, thus procuring a supply of meat for the wholeparty and villagers too. The hammer which we hear fromdawn till sunset is a large stone, bound with the strong-inner bark of a tree, and loops left which form pieces of bark form the tongs, and a big stone sunk intothe ground the anvil. They make several hoes in a day,and the metal is very good; it is all from yellow hematite, vol. I. L 146 LIVINGSTONES LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. VI. which abounds all over this part of the country; the bellowsconsist of two goatskins with sticks at the open ends, whichare opened and shut at every Forging Hoes. A. lion came last night and gave a growl loth Novembei or two on finding he could not get our meat: a man hadlent us a hunting net to protect it and us from intruders ofthis sort. The people kept up a shouting for hours afterwards,in order to keep him away by the human voice. We might have gone on, but I had a galled heel fromnew shoes. Wild figs are rather nice when quite ripe. \±th November.—We marched northwards round the endof Chisia Hill, and remained for the night at a black-smiths, or rather founders village; the two occupations of 1866.] IRON SMELTERS AND BLACKSMITHS. 117 founder and smith arc always united, and boys taught to besmiths in Europe or India would find themselves useless ifunable to smelt the ore. A good portion of the trees of thecountry have been cut down for charcoal, and those whichnow spring up are small; certain fruit trees alone are long slopes on the undulating country,
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