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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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Chap. I. SALT A CURE FOR INDIGESTION. 27
had frequent opportunities of seeing at other times, for, the dis-
trict being destitute of salt, the rich alone could afford to buy it.
The native doctors, aware of the cause of the malady, usually
prescribed some of that ingredient with their medicines. The
doctors themselves had none, so the poor resorted to us for aid.
We took the hint, and henceforth cured the disease by giving a
teaspoonful of salt, minus the other remedies. Either milk or
meat had the same effect, though not so rapidly as salt. Long
afterwards, when I was myself deprived of salt for four months,
at two distinct periods, I felt no desire for that condiment, but I
was plagued by very great longing for the above articles of food.
This continued as long as I was confined to an exclusively ve-
getable diet, and when I procured a meal of flesh, though boiled
in perfectly fresh rain-water, it tasted as pleasantly saltish as if
slightly impregnated with the condiment. Milk or meat, obtained
in

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