File:The life and labors of David Livingstone, LL. D., D.C.L., covering his entire career in Southern and Central Africa. Carefully prepared from the most authentic sources...The whole rendered clear and (14759130866).jpg

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Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Chambliss, J. E
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard bros. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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d take her on to her husband. This woman was evidently a lady among them; her superiority not only consisted in the rank which a wealth of fine beads indicated, but she was manifestly a woman of uncommon spirits. She proved herself well worthy of the kindness she had received. During the few days in which she was with Livingstone's party, her deportment was that of a lady, kind and helpful, but modest and retiring enough to satisfy even the fastidious prudence of the most refined. And she was not ungrateful. She had been rescued from a dreadful fate indeed; a few moments earlier or later she might have reached no friendly, pitying ears with her cries. Yes, there are ears always open to the cry of the oppressed; there are eyes that always bend pityingly on the suffering. Sometimes the Lord allows the yoke to cut deeply into the neck that bears it, but does he ever forget to be gracious? Will he disregard the cry of Ethiopia when she stretches out her hands unto him? and when the time of his de*
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HORRORS OF THE TRADE IN SLAVES. 441 liverance comes, will he not avenge the wrongs which he has witnessed ? The marks of the dreadful trade became more and more frequent as he penetrated the Waiyau country. They had hardly released Akosakone, when they passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body, and lying in the path. A group of men stood about a hundred yards off on one side, and another group of women on the other; they said this cruel murder had just been committed by an Arab who passed by, in his anger at losing the price he had paid for her, when he saw that she could walk no farther. The head men of the villages seemed greatly troubled and alarmed when they were told of so many dead bodies of their people, who had been killed by the slavers, and were not blind to the reasoning of Livingstone when he attempted to show them that those who sold these poor creatures to the Arabs were sharers with them in the guilt of these murders. As the party came nearer Mtarikas place, the coun

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