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Title: Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Livingstone, Charles, 1821-1873, (from old catalog) joint author
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the opening in which a large old canoe, with a hole in its bot-tom, is seen lying on its side, is the mouth of the creek Mutu, which in 1861 appeared in a map published by thePortuguese Minister of Marine and the Colonies as that through which the chief portion of the Zambesi, here about a mile wide, flowed to Quillimane. In reality, this creek, eight or ten yards wide, is filled with grass, and its bed is six feet or more above the level of the Zambesi. The side of the creek opposite to the canoe is seen in the right of the picture, and sloping down from the bed to one of the dead bodies may be marked the successive heights at which th ewater of the main stream stood from flood-time in March to its medium height in June. For sixty or seventy miles before reaching Mazaro the scenery is tame and uninteresting. On either hand is a dreary uninhabited expanse, of the same level grassy plains, with merely a few trees to relieve the painful monotony.The round green top of the stately palm-tree looks at a
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Chap. I. BIRDS AND BEASTS ON RIVER. 33 distance, when its gray trunk can not be seen, as though hung in mid-air. Many flocks of busy sand-martins, which here, and as far south as the Orange River, do not migrate, have perforated the banks two or three feet horizontally, in order to place their nests at the ends, and are now chasing on restless wing the myriads of tropical insects. The broad river has many low islands, on which are seen various kinds of water-fowl, such as geese, spoonbills, herons, and flamingoes. Repulsive crocodiles, as with open jaws they sleep and bask in the sun on the low banks, soon catch the sound of the revolving paddles and glide quietly into the stream. The hippopotamus, having selected some still reach of the river to spend the day, rises from the bottom, where he has been enjoying his morning bath after the labors of the night on shore, blows a puff of spray out of his nostrils, shakes the water out of his ears, puts his enormous snout up straight and yawns, sounding a

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