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Title: David Livingstone: the story of one who followed Christ
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Houghton, Louise Seymour, 1838-1920
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: PHiladelphia, Presby. Bd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t of man a vivid idea of the tread-mill. This journey was made even more dishearteningthan the former one by the enmity of the tribes onthe route, who were at once bloodthirsty and cow-ardly. A village of the Batoka, a tribe subject tothe Makololo, was palisaded with stakes, on whichhung fifty-four human skulls. In this region, ifa man wished to curry favor with a Batoka chief,he ascertained when a stranger was about to leaveand waylaid him at a distance from the town, andwhen he brought his head back to the chief it wasmounted as a trophy, the different chiefs vieingwith each other as to which should mount thegreatest number of skulls in his village. Farther on the people were actually hostile, thechiefs going so far as to send messengers on in ad-vance to stir up the neighboring villages againstthem. Yet even under these circumstances Living-stone finds frequent opportunities for telling peo-ple of the love of the Son of God. Amid hisdistractions of mind he finds leisure to discover
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A Village Palisade. Page 180. THE QUESTION ANSWERED. 181 evidences of coal on the slope of the river Mozuraaand to verify his theories of the conformation ofthe country. But he is utterly sickened and dis-heartened by the depravity of the people. At onevillage the head man came and spoke civilly, butwhen nearly dark the people of another village ar-rived and behaved very differently. They beganby trying to spear a young man who had gone forwater. Then they approached us, and one cameforward howling at the top of his voice in the mosthideous manner; his eyes were shot out, his lipscovered with foam and every muscle of his framequivered. He came near to me, and, having asmall battle-axe in his hand, alarmed my men lesthe should do violence: but they were afraid to dis-obey my previous orders and follow their own in-clination by knocking him on the head. I felt alittle alarmed too, but would not show fear beforemy own people or strangers, and kept a sharp look-out for the little battle-a

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