Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa By David Livingstone



 -   Mr. Quekett, having kindly examined some specimens,
finds that it is silicified CONIFEROUS WOOD of the ARAUCARIAN type;
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Mr. Quekett, Having Kindly Examined Some Specimens, Finds That It Is "Silicified CONIFEROUS WOOD Of The ARAUCARIAN Type; And The Nearest Allied Wood That He Knows Of Is That Found, Also In A Fossil State, In New South Wales." The Numbers Of Large Game Were Quite Astonishing.

I never saw elephants so tame as those near the Chiponga:

They stood close to our path without being the least afraid. This is different from their conduct where they have been accustomed to guns, for there they take alarm at the distance of a mile, and begin to run if a shot is fired even at a longer distance. My men killed another here, and rewarded the villagers of the Chiponga for their liberality in meal by loading them with flesh. We spent a night at a baobab, which was hollow, and would hold twenty men inside. It had been used as a lodging-house by the Babisa.

As we approached nearer the Zambesi, the country became covered with broad-leaved bushes, pretty thickly planted, and we had several times to shout to elephants to get out of our way. At an open space, a herd of buffaloes came trotting up to look at our oxen, and it was only by shooting one that I made them retreat. The meat is very much like that of an ox, and this one was very fine. The only danger we actually encountered was from a female elephant, with three young ones of different sizes.

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