How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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I Know I Should Do
So Very Readily, If A Man's Character Was Of That Oblique
Nature That It Was
An impossibility to travel in his company.
I have seen men, in whose company I felt nothing but a thraldom,
Which it was a duty to my own self-respect to cast off as soon
as possible; a feeling of utter incompatibility, with whose
nature mine could never assimilate. But Livingstone was a
character that I venerated, that called forth all my enthusiasm,
that evoked nothing but sincerest admiration.
Dr. Livingstone is about sixty years old, though after he was
restored to health he appeared more like a man who had not passed
his fiftieth year. His hair has a brownish colour yet, but is here
and there streaked with grey lines over the temples; his whiskers
and moustache are very grey. He shaves his chin daily. His eyes,
which are hazel, are remarkably bright; he has a sight keen as a
hawk's. His teeth alone indicate the weakness of age; the hard
fare of Lunda has made havoc in their lines. His form, which
soon assumed a stoutish appearance, is a little over the ordinary
height with the slightest possible bow in the shoulders. When
walking he has a firm but heavy tread, like that of an overworked
or fatigued man. He is accustomed to wear a naval cap with a
semicircular peak, by which he has been identified throughout
Africa. His dress, when first I saw him, exhibited traces of
patching and repairing, but was scrupulously clean.
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