The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
Ilvines(enc's Last JeurnalA

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The Travels Of DR.. Livingstone have
been interesting topics to the civilized
world for many years. We remember 10
our school.boy days Of listening with open
eyed wonder to the strange and marvel
Gus stories told US by our teacher as she
read them. It was one Of the pleasantest
parts OF the day after having rectted and
studied our lessons and our other duties
being over to haveher tell us OF the
strange lands, the wonderful sights, the
curious manners and customs, OF the peo-
pie of that far-of country - related Dy
DR.. Livingstone himself.
We found, afterwards, that this inter
est was not confined to children, but peo-
ple Of maturer age were as much fascin-
ated and charmed with the book as we.
When in 1872 Henry NJ Stanely returned
from Africa with the intelligence that he
had been with and seen DIR. Livingstone
many were inclined to doubt 1t, thinking
it was nothing but an advertising dodge
of the ". r Herald. But it appears from
this work that he really saw the Doctor
and Travelled with him.
This work is the last we will ever have
from Dr. Livingstone. 1t is authentic,
being daily record Of his travels and ex-
periences, written at the time, often under
tile most discouraging circumstances.
We make some quotations from the
book describing the land, the people, the
writer's experiences, his meeting with
Stanley, &c, &c.
Speaking of the land he thinks portions
of it have once been inhabited by smother
class Of people. He says:
An Immense tract of country hes unin-
habited. To the northeast Of Moembe
we have at least ffty miles of as fine land
as can be seen anywhere, still bearing all
the marks Of having once supported d
prOdigious irOn-smelting and grain grow
ing population. The clay pipes which
are put on the nozzles Of their bellows
and inserted into the furnace are met with
everywhere, often vitrified. Then the
ridges on which they planted maize,
beans, cassava, and sorghum, and which
they find necessary to drain off the too
abundant moisture of the rains, still re-
main unlevcled to attest the industry OF
the former inhabitants; the soil being
clayed, resists for long time the influ-
cncc of the weather. These ridges are
very regular, for in crossing the old fields,
as the path often compels US to do, one
foot treads regularly on the ridge, and the
other in the hollow, for considerable
distance. Pieces of broken pots, with
their rims ornamented with very good
limitations of basket-work, attest that the
lady potters of old followed the example
given them by their still more ancient
mothers. Their designs are rude, but
better than we can make them without
referring to the original.
Travelling such long distances and con-
stantly on the 60 he would occasionally
run out of provisions In such cases he
would have to resort to various devices
to relieve his hunger.
January 9tA.-My stock of meal came
to an end to-day, but Simon gave me
some of his. 1t is not the unpleasantness
of eating unpalatablc food that leases
one, but we are never satisfied. l could
brace myself to dispose of very unsavory
mess, and think no more about it; but this
mare engenders craving which plaques
day and night necessarily.
January 10th.-We crossed the .Muasi,
flowing strongly to the east, to the Loang-
wa river
In the afternoon an excessively heavy
thunder storm wetted US all to the skin
before any shelter could be made. Two
of our men wandered, and other two re-
NAMED behind lost, as our track was
washed out by the rains. The country is
succession of enormous waves, all COW
cred with jungle, and no traces Of paths.
We were in hollow, and our firing was
not heard till this morning, when we as
cended height, and were answered. !
H@ shanktq Hug no SRso x gsvs lost s for
tie more OF his meal this morning, and
went without himself. took my belt up
three holes to relieve hunger. We got
some wretched wild fruit like that called
"jambos" in India, and at midday reached
the village of Chafung. Famine here
too, but some men had killed an elephant,
and came to sell the dried meat: it was
high, and so were their prices; but we are
obliged to give our best from this craving
hunger.
Travelling through the swamps and I'M
inhabited portions of the country he often
would be victim to the malaria:
March 10TH have been i'll of fever
ever since we left Moamba's; every step
take jars in the chest, and / am very
weak; can scarcely keep up the march,
though formerly ! was always first, and
had to hold in my pace, not to leave the
people altogether. have constant
singing in the ears, and can scarcely hear
the loud tick of the chrOnometers. The
appetite is good, but we have no proper
food, chiefly Maere meal or beans, or
mapemba or ground-nut, rarely fowl.
He is attacked BY the driver-ants which
we suppose from the description are very
similar to the white ants of India.
March 20th - The same features of
country prevailed; indeed it was impossi-
bic to count the streams flowing north
west. We found Kasonso situated at the
confluence of two streams; he shook hands
a long while, and seems frank sort Of
man. A shower of rain set the driver
ants on the move, and about two hours
after We had turned in we were over
whc!med by them. They are called ka.
landu, or nkalanda.
To describe this attack is utterly impos-
sible. / Weakened covered with them; my
hair was full of them. One by one they
cut into the fleeh, and the more they are
disturbed, the more vicious are their
bites; they become quite insolcnt Invent
outside the hut, but there they swarmed
everywhere; they covered the legs, biting
lurlously; it is only when they are tired
that they leave off.
He seemed to have other desires than
simply to explore the depths Of Africa
and find the source of the Nile:
Bambarre, August 24tA, 187O.-One Of
my waking dreams is that the legendary
sales about Noses coming up into Inner
Ethiopia with Merr, his foster mother.
and founding a city which he called in her
honor 'Meroe," may have substratum
u fact. He was evidently man of |
ranscendent genius, and we learn from
he speech of st. Stephen that s'he was
earned in all the wisdom of the Egyp- |
aims, and was mighty in words and In
leeds" His deeds must have been well |
znown in Egypt, for She supposed that
lis brethren would have understood how
hat God by his hand would deliver
hem, but they understood not" His
Imposition could not be founded on
lis success in shifting single Egyptian;
e was too great man to be elated BY q
ingle act of prowess; but his success On q
arge scale in Ethiopia afforded reasonable
rounds for believing that his brethren
would be proud Of their countryman, and
disposed to follow his leadership, but
hey were slaves. The notice taken of
he matter by Pharaoh showed that he