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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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s a terrier dogdoes a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that whichseems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat.It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no senseof pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all thatwas happening. It was like what patients partially under theinfluence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, butfeel not the knife. This singular condition was not the resultof any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowedno sense of horror in looking round at the beast. This pecu-liar state is probably produced in all animals killed by thecarnivora; and if so, is a merciful provision by our bene-volent Creator for lessening the pain of death. Turning roundto relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the backof my head, I saw his eyes directed to Mebalwe, who was tryingto shoot him at a distance of ten or fifteen yards. His gun, aflint one, missed fire in both barrels; the lion immediately left
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• Chap. I. NAMES OF BECHUANA TRIBES. 13 me, and, attacking Mebalwe, bit his thigh. Another man, whoselife I had saved before, after he had been tossed by a buffalo,attempted to spear the lion while he was biting Mebalwe. Heleft Mebalwe and caught-this man by the shoulder, but at thatmoment the bullets he had received took effect, and he fell downdead. The whole was the work of a few moments, and must havebeen his paroxysm of dying rage. In order to take out the charmfrom him, the Bakatla on the following day made a huge bonfireover the carcase, which was declared to be that of the largestlion they had ever seen. Besides crunching the bone into splinters,he left eleven teeth wounds on the upper part of my arm. A wound from this animals tooth resembles a gun-shot wound;it is generally followed by a great deal of sloughing and dis-charge, and pains are felt in the part periodically ever afterwards.I had on a tartan jacket on the occasion, and I believe that itwiped off all the virus fr

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