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Page 45 - Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head, I saw his eyes directed to Mebalwe, who was trying to shoot him, at a distance of ten or fifteen yards. His gun missed fire in both barrels ; the lion immediately left me, and, attacking
Page 45 - I saw one of the beasts sitting on a piece of rock as before, but this time he had a little bush in front. Being about thirty yards off, I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it. ' The men then called out,
Page 102 - We marched along with our father,' they said, ' believing that what the ancients had always told us was true, that the world has no end ; but all at once the world said to us, "I am finished; there is no more of me
Page 200 - I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I LEAVE IT WITH YOU. LIVINGSTONE.
Page 2 - Beseeching all ... that shall see and read in this said book and work, that they take the good and honest acts in their remembrance, and to follow the same. Wherein they shall find many joyous and pleasant
Page 64 - These are the hills, these are the woods, These are my starry solitudes; And there the river by whose brink The roaring lions come to drink. The
Page 180 - said : Ye be welcome. And he answered and saluted him again . . . And there was great joy between them, for there is no tongue can tell the joy that they made either of other, and many a friendly word spoken
Page 186 - him I noticed he was pale, that he looked wearied and wan, that he had grey whiskers and moustache, that he wore a bluish cloth cap with a faded gold band on a red ground round it, and that he had on a red, sleeved waistcoat and a pair of grey tweed trousers.
Page 196 - I could not eat, my heart was too full ; neither did my companion seem to have an appetite. We found something to do which kept us longer together. At eight o'clock I was not gone, and I had thought to have been off at 5 am
Page 125 - I will not cross furtively by night as I intended. It would appear as flight, and should such a man as I flee ? Nay, verily, I shall take observations for latitude and longitude to-night, though they may be the last.