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Title: David Livingstone: the story of one who followed Christ
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Houghton, Louise Seymour, 1838-1920
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: PHiladelphia, Presby. Bd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ising like a little duck over the foaming billows.She took in spray alone, and no green water. Theman-of-wars people expected that she would godown, and it was wonderful to see how well shedid, when the big man-of-war, only about two hun-dred feet off, plunged so as to show a large portionof copper on her bottom, then down behind so asto have the sea level with the top of her bulwarks.A boat hung at that level was smashed. If wehad gone down we could not have been helped inthe least—pitch dark and wind whistling above;the black folks, ane booking here, anither thereyand wranting us to go to the bank. On the 18ththe weather moderated, and, the captain repeatinghis very kind offer, I went on board with a clearconscience; and even then the boat got damaged.I was hoisted up, and got rested in what was asteady ship as compared with the Lady Nyassa.The Ariel was three days cutting off the hawser,though nine feet under water, the men diving andcutting it with immensely long chisels. On the
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Zanzibar. Page 243 THE LADY NYASSA. 243 19th we spoke a Liverpool ship, requesting thecaptain to report me alive, a silly report havingbeen circulated by the Portuguese that I had beenkilled at Lake Nyassa, and on the 24th we enteredMozambique harbor, very thankful for our kindand merciful preservation. Remaining at Mozambique long enough to repairthe Lady Nyassa, they proceeded to Zanzibar. Dr.Livingstone had one or two offers for her there, butthey were quite insufficient, and it seemed wisest totake her to Bombay to be sold. But here a diffi-culty arose: Mr. Rae, the ships engineer, havingreceived the offer of a good situation, wished to ac-cept it. His place could not be supplied, and onthe 30th of April, Dr. Livingstone set out in hislittle vessel on a voyage of twenty-five hundredmiles over an unknown sea, with a crew consisting—besides the skipper, Dr. Livingstone—of threeEuropeans, fireman, carpenter and one sailor, sevennatives who had never before seen the sea, and twobo

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