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Title: Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, ill Need, Henry, ill Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, ill Picken, Thomas, d. 1870, lithographer Livingstone, David, 1813-1873, inscriber. DSI Vavasseur, Mrs., fl. 1857, former owner. DSI Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910- former owner. DSI Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883, annotator. DSI Larkins, J., binder. DSI Howell, Marmaduke G., former owner. DSI Cooke, Robert, former owner. DSI Day & Son., lithographer T. & R. Annan, photographer. DSI William Clowes and Sons, printer St. Leonards School, former owner. DSI Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Missions
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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then purchasedskins with it from the Bakalahari, tanned them, and sewed theminto karosses, then went south to purchase heifer-calves with them,cows being the highest form of riches known, as I have oftennoticed from their asking if Queen Victoria had many cows.The compact they enter into is mutually beneficial, but injusticeand wrong are often perpetrated by one tribe of Bechuanas goingamong the Bakalahari of another tribe, and compelling them todeliver up the skins which they may be keeping for their friends.They are a timid race, and in bodily development often resemblethe aborigines of Australia. They have thin legs and arms, andlarge protruding abdomens caused by the coarse indigestible foodthey eat. Then childrens eyes lack lustre. I never saw themat play. A few Bechuanas may go into a village of Bakalahari,and domineer over the whole with impunity; but when thesesame adventurers meet the Bushmen, they are fain to changetheir manners to fawning sycophancy; they know that, if the
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Chap. H. FEMALE WATER-SUCKERS. 51 request for tobacco is refused, these free sons of the Desert may-settle the point as to its possession by a poisoned arrow. The dread of visits from Bechuanas of strange tribes causes theBakalahari to choose their residences far from water; and theynot unfrequently hide then supplies by filling the pits with sandand making a fire over the spot. When they wish to draw waterfor use, the women come with twenty or thirty of their water-vessels in a bag or net on their backs. These water-vessels consistof ostrich egg-shells, with a hole in the end of each, such as wouldadmit ones finger. The women tie a bunch of grass to one endof a reed about two feet long, and insert it in a hole dug as deepas the arm will reach; then ram down the wet sand firmly roundit. Applying the mouth to the free end of the reed, they form avacuum in the grass beneath, in which the water collects, and hia short time rises into the mouth. An egg-shell is placed on theground alongsi

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