[A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link bookA Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries CHAPTER XI 43/53
They preferred a very cheap, plain, blue stuff of which they had experience.
A great quantity of excellent honey is collected all along the river, by bark hives being placed for the bees on the high trees on both banks.
Large pots of it, very good and clear, were offered in exchange for a very little cloth.
No wax was brought for sale; there being no market for this commodity, it is probably thrown away as useless. At Michi we lose the tableland which, up to this point, bounds the view on both sides of the river, as it were, with ranges of flat-topped hills, 600 or 800 feet high; and to this plateau a level fertile plain succeeds, on which stand detached granite hills.
That portion of the tableland on the right bank seems to bend away to the south, still preserving the appearance of a hill range.
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