Livingstone's Africa: Perilous Adventures And Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa
Livingstone's Africa: Perilous Adventures And Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa
Livingstone David
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All call out against it then, saying, "Oh, the sun! that is rain again." It is worth noticing that my companions never complained of the heat while on the highlands; but when we descended into the lowlands of Angola, and here also, they began to fret on account of it. 1 myself felt an oppressive steami- ness in the atmosphere which I had not experienced on the higher lands. As the game was abundant aiid my party very large, I had still to supply their wants with the gun. We sluugti- tered the o...xen only when unsuccessful in hunting. We always entered into friendly relations with the head-men of the dift'erent villages, and they presented grain and other food freely. One man gave a basinful of rice, — the first we met with in the country. It is never seen in the in- terior. He said he knew it was "white man's corn," and, when 1 wished to buy some more, he asked me to give him % slave. This was the first symptom of the slave-trade on Uiis side of the country. The lust of these friendly hea
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