This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... any one was ill, would put on their hideous feathers and horns of poison and dance and call out, as they smelt for the one who (they said) had bewitched the sick man. Then they would make the accused man drink the poison and--of course he would die. Livingstone saw that these witch-doctors all over Central Africa ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... any one was ill, would put on their hideous feathers and horns of poison and dance and call out, as they smelt for the one who (they said) had bewitched the sick man. Then they would make the accused man drink the poison and--of course he would die. Livingstone saw that these witch-doctors all over Central Africa killed--and they still do so to-day--as many people in a year as the slave-trade ever did. The people were also filled with dread of the demonspirits of the dead, who would--they thought--do them awful harm. Livingstone was thinking of these things one day in Cassange, when--looking up--he saw running towards the house a man from Loanda with letters and papers. They were papers all the way from England addressed to himself. He eagerly opened them and read in The Times about the Crimean War, which was then being waged. There was the story of the dashing charge of the Light Brigade. To read this made him as excited as it does all people who admire daring. Livingstone himself did not carry lance and sword like a soldier; and G he was mounted--not on a dashing horse, but on a lumbering ox. In the very days, however, when he was reading in The Times of the brave soldiers, he was himself, like the Light Brigade, charging Into the valley of death, the valley of Cassange, to rescue the people there and in all Africa from the dread of the slave-gang, and witch-doctors and demons. He pushed on eastward back towards Linyanti--which was 'home' for his companions. Often he would enjoy walking through the green, grassy country in the mornings, seeing the cattle feeding; the goats browsing while their kids skipped and bunted one another in play; the boys taking care of the goats and playing with bows and arrows and spears; the women walking down to the river wit...
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