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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 14
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This is done by cutting it up into long strips and pouring in water till it is covered.

When that is boiled dry, the meat is considered ready.
The people at Gonye carry the canoes over the space requisite to avoid the falls by slinging them on poles tied on diagonally.

They place these on their shoulders, and, setting about the work with good humor, soon accomplish the task.

They are a merry set of mortals; a feeble joke sets them off in a fit of laughter.

Here, as elsewhere, all petitioned for the magic lantern, and, as it is a good means of conveying instruction, I willingly complied.
The falls of Gonye have not been made by wearing back, like those of Niagara, but are of a fissure form.


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