This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1868 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE CAPE--ENLIST NATIVES--THEIR FORMER HISTORY--LEAVE FOR THE ZAMBFSI H.M.9. " PETREL " THE KONGONE--THE ZAMBESI VOYAGE DP THE FISH-HAWK--AN ALARM--BISHOP MACKENZIE"S GRAVE ENTER THE ELEPHANT MARSH --STALKING ELEPHANTS--ARRIVAL AT CHIBISAS. As soon as we arrived in Table Bay, I went forthwith to the Rev. J. F. Lightfoot, to enlist his aid in getting that most difficult of all requisites--a faithful interpreter, in our future wanderings. Mr. Lightfoot had voluntarily taken on himself the supervision of fortv-two natives, who were brought out of the Zambesi by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Waller in 1864. They had been apprenticed to good masters, and had very much improved under kind treatment; and from this little group of free boys and girls, I knew I could rightly expect the response I needed. They had in past time owed their liberty to Dr. Livingstone; he and Bishop Mackenzie had cut them out of the Portuguese slave sticks; they had been guarded, provided for, and eventually taken to a place of safety by those who originally undertook to risk all for them; and I felt certain I had only to state my object in coming amongst them again to get the help I wanted. Nor was I mistaken. I selected two boys on whom I could thoroughly depend, Chinsoro and Sinjeri. The first of these had acted for some years as servant to Mr. Waller, and during his sojourn on the Shire had shown such a disposition for truthfulness, I could not have been more fortunate than in securing him. He had married an Ajawa girl, named Chasika, remarkable for many good points, and who had always been a special favourite with Dr. Livingstone during two years of great suffering she underwent from acute disease at Magomero and Chibisa"s. They both agreed it was right to do all they could fo...