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Title: Pioneers in South Africa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: South Africa -- Discovery and exploration South Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Blackie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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n to shoot wasirresistible. In the course of a few minutes nearly a dozen shots were fired; and nowthe buffaloes, never having been so roughly handled before, fled, but, horror ofhorrors, can the reader imagine it? I never expected to look upon such a sight. Theleading males shot out of the only cover they had, and the whole herd followed head-long, at frightful speed, to the very brink of the precipice overlooking the Falls. Itwas a dreadful sight, and, buffaloes as they were, I forgot the fact in my horror, anddrew back in breathless anxiety at their impending fate, feeling for them as if they werehuman. Here they stood upon the slippery verge, the front rank looking downwardsinto the hideous gulf, the hinder ones butting each other, still pushing on as if about toplunge to the bottom. . . . The result of our short attack afterwards proved six buffa-loes slam and several wounded; yet not a particle of flesh was wasted. (JamesChapman in Travels in the Interior of South Africa, 1868.)
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THE MAIN FALL, ZAMBESI Livingstones Great Journeys 287 Passing through the Butonga country and the southernborders of the land inhabited by the Ba-ila or Ba-shuku-lombwe people—a splendid race of naked savages, withtheir hair woven into a long erect chignon carried up-wards by elastic fibres till it rose a couple of feet abovethe head—and managing with his usual tact to appeasethe suspicions of these people (who had never seen awhite man before and only associated the idea of whitemen with slave raiding), Livingstone crossed the Kafueand the Luangwa—great northern affluents of the Zambezi—and arrived at Zumbo. Here he first came into touchwith Portuguese influence on the Zambezi, and saw theruins of the old Jesuit establishment, which the Portuguesehad abandoned for something like fifty years. Thesituation of Zumbo, he wrote, was admirably wellchosen as a site for commerce. Looking backwards wesee a mass of high, dark mountains, covered with trees;behind us rises the fine high

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