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Title: David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Brice, A. H. M. (Arthur Hallam Montefiore), 1859-1927
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: New York : Fleming H. Revell Co.
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ding them to England, and to
return alone, with a view to exploring the country in
search of a healthy district that might prove a centre
of civilization and open up the interior by a path to the
east or west coast. He accordingly took his family to the Cape, and for
the first time after a lapse of eleven years came in
contact with civilized life.
The absence was to be for
two years; before they met again five years had passed,
and Livingstone, from being an unknown missionary
in Bechwanaland, had leaped into world-wide fame by
his famous journey to Loanda, and thence across Africa.
While Livingstone was slowly returning to Kolobeng,
the Boers attacked the Bakwains, slew many, and took
more away into captivity. His own house was sacked,
the furniture carried away, and all the books of his
valued library torn to pieces, and the leaves scattered
on the ground outside his house. Enormous numbers
of cattle were raided, and the children of Sechele, the
chief, stolen. It was fortunate for Livingstone that he
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MAP OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
Livingstone's routes are indicated thus —
42 DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
was not at Kolobeng, for Pretorius had threatened to
kill him, and there can be little doubt that that threat
would have been carried out. There was not the
shadow of justification for this and other murderous
incursions of the Boers; and as Livingstone subsequently
and shrewdly pointed out, if the Bakwains had been
producers of raw material for English commerce, the
outrageous conduct of the Boers would not have gone
unpunished, not to mention unheeded, by the English
nation. And he adds : "We ought to encourage the
Africans to cultivate for our markets, as the most effectual
means, next to the Gospel, of their elevation.
As directly assisting to this end, he became more
than ever determined to open up the interior—the Boer
policy being one of exclusiveness. So after some delay,
owing to the unsettled state of the country, he procured
guides, and arrived safely at Linyanti, the chief town
of the Makololo people, in the month of June, 1853.

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