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Title: Dick Sands : the boy captain
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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e to him? repeated his mother, that is the verything I was thinking about. The child little knew the agitation that was troubling hermind. Meanwhile Mrs. Weldon had another inducement whichshe hardly ventured to own to herself for postponing herfinal decision. Was it absolutely impossible that herliberation should be effected by some different meansaltogether ? A few days previously she had overheard a conversationoutside her hut, and over this she had found herselfcontinually pondering. Alvez and one of the Ujiji dealers, discussing the futureprospects of their business, mutually agreed in denouncingthe efforts that were being made for the suppression of theslave-traffic, not only by the cruisers on the coast, butby the intrusion of travellers and missionaries into the in-terior. Alvez averred that all these troublesome visitors ought tobe exterminated forthwith. But kill one, and another crops up, replied the dealer. Yes, their exaggerated reports bring up a swarm o them,said Alvez.
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Dr. Livingstone. A RAY OF HOPE. $2J It seemed a subject of bitter complaint that the marketsof Nyangwe, Zanzibar, and the lake-district had been invadedby Speke and Grant and others, and although theycongratulated each other that the western provinces had notyet been much persecuted, they confessed that now that thetravelling epidemic had begun to rage, there was no tellinghow soon a lot of European and American busy-bodies mightbe among them. The depots at Cassange and Bihe had bothbeen visited, and although Kazonnde had hitherto been leftquiet, there were rumours enough that the continent was tobe tramped over from east to west.1 And it may be, continued Alvez, that that missionaryfellow, Livingstone, is already on his way to us ; if he comesthere can be but one result ; there must be freedom for allthe slaves in KazonndeV Freedom for the slaves in Kazonnde*! These were thewords which in connexion with Dr. Livingstones name hadarrested Mrs. Weldons attention, and who can wonder that

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