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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

CHAPTER XIII
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There is quite a trade here in dried fish.
The country around is elevated, undulating, and very extensively planted with cassava.

The hoe in use has a handle of four feet in length, and the iron part is exactly of the same form as that in the country of the Bechuanas.

The baskets here, which are so closely woven together as to hold beer, are the same with those employed to hold milk in Kaffirland--a thousand miles distant.
Marching on foot is peculiarly conducive to meditation--one is glad of any subject to occupy the mind, and relieve the monotony of the weary treadmill-like trudge-trudging.

This Chia net brought to our mind that the smith's bellows made here of a goatskin bag, with sticks along the open ends, are the same as those in use in the Bechuana country far to the south-west.

These, with the long-handled hoe, may only show that each successive horde from north to south took inventions with it from the same original source.


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