How I Found Livingstone: Travels and Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa

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Scribner's sons, 1891 - 736페이지
 

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412 페이지 - I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mob— would have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thing — walked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" "Yes," said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly.
428 페이지 - I defy any one to be in his society long without thoroughly fathoming him, for in him there is no guile, and what is apparent on the surface is the thing that is in him. . . . Dr. Livingstone is about sixty years old, though after he was restored to health he looked like a man who had not passed his fiftieth year. His hair has a brownish...
xviii 페이지 - Well, I will tell you what you will do. Draw a thousand pounds now; and when you have gone through that, draw another thousand, and when that is spent, draw another thousand, and when you have finished that, draw another thousand, and so on; but, FIND LIVINGSTONE.
11 페이지 - Where do you think Livingstone is ? " " I really do not know, sir." '' Do you think he is alive ?" " He may be and he may not be," I answered. " Well, I think he is alive, and that he can be found, and I am going to send you to find him.
419 페이지 - you had better read your letters. I will not keep you up any longer.' 'Yes,' he answered, 'it is getting late; and I will go and read my friends
415 페이지 - Prussia had humbled Denmark, and annexed Schleswig-Holstein, and her armies were now around Paris ; the " man of Destiny " was a prisoner at Wilhelmshohe ; the Queen of Fashion and the Empress of the French was a fugitive ; and the child born in the purple had lost forever the...
617 페이지 - An Englishman coming! I see him!" and off he darted to meet him. An American flag, the first ever seen in these parts, at the head of a caravan, told me the nationality of the stranger. I am as cold and non-demonstrative as we islanders are usually reputed to be; but your kindness made my frame thrill. It was, indeed, overwhelming...
11 페이지 - do you really think I can find Dr. Livingstone ? Do you mean me to go to Central Africa ?" " Yes ; I mean that you shall go, and find him wherever you may hear that he is, and...
89 페이지 - ... out a little way, and it assumes a crimson color as the mandibles come into brisk operation. The previously shrunken belly swells out, and if left undisturbed, the fly quietly departs when it is full. A slight itching irritation follows, but not more than in the bite of a mosquito. In the ox this same bite produces no more immediate effects than in man.
626 페이지 - Chikumbis, on the Lualaba. On crossing the Lualaba, I shall go direct south-west to the copper mines of Katanga. Eight days south of Katanga the natives declare the fountains to be. When I have found them I shall return by Katanga to the underground houses of Rua. From the caverns, ten days north-east will take me to Lake Komolendo. I shall be able to travel from the lake in your boat, up the river Lufira, to Lake Lincoln. Then, coming down again, I can proceed north by the Lualaba to the fourth...

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