Livingstone's cataract
Journal: Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town)
Year: 2011

Marvellous,' the minister is saying, 'absolutely marvellous.And the country you describe there -who would have thought?' 'It is,' Livingstone says, 'an exceedingly promising country.Fertile, well watered.If the natives can be taught to put their hand to agriculture, to legitimate commerce, we can save them from the strangle of the slave trade.'This expedition was going to be different.On his previous journeys, Livingstone had travelled on his own -always with a party of natives, of course, but n