Heroes of the Desert: The Story of the Lives and Labours of Moffat and Livingstone

Anne Manning

T. Nelson, 1875 - Explorers - 286 pages

Contents

• Part First Robert Moffat: 9
• MOFFAT TAMES THE LION: 17
• CHILDREN WORSE THAN LIONS: 27
• THE TAMED LION AT THE CAPE: 38
• CONTENTS: 49
• HARD LINES: 53
• WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS: 61
• SAVAGE WARFARE: 72
• VISIT TO THE DREADED MAKABA: 83
• THE SOWERS REWARD: 109
• MOSELEKATSE THE NAPOLEON OF THE DESERT: 123
• THE VISIT TO MOSHEU: 133
• Part Second David Livingstone: 145
• LAKE NGAMI: 151
• THE VISIT TO SEBITUANE: 166
• WHO SHALL FIND HIM?: 177
• WHAT HAD BECOME OF LIVINGSTONE?: 186
• LIVINGSTONES THIRD EXPEDITION: 227
• STANLEYS RETURN AFTER FULFILLING HIS MISSION: 252
• THE CLOSING SCENE: 262
• A HEROS OBSEQUIES: 275

Popular passages

Page 51 - Behave to any teacher you may have sent, as one sent of God, as I have great hope that God will bless you in this respect when I am gone to heaven. I feel that I love God, and that He has done much for me, of which I am totally unworthy." ' " My former life is stained with blood, but Jesus Christ has pardoned me, and I am going to heaven. Oh ! beware of falling into the same evils into which I have led you frequently ; but seek God, and He will be found of you to direct you.

Page 233 - Well, I think he is alive, and that he can be found, and I am going to send you to find him." "What!" said I, "do you really think I can find Dr. Livingstone? Do you mean me to go to Central Africa?

Page 132 - And, raising his hand to the ring he wore on his brow, he continued, " How can I live among the dogs of the king, and disgrace these badges of honour which I won among the spears and shields of the mighty?

Bibliographic information

• Title: Heroes of the Desert: The Story of the Lives and Labours of Moffat and Livingstone
• Author: Anne Manning
• Publisher: T. Nelson, 1875
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Jun 28, 2006
• Length: 286 pages