Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa ... / by David Livingstone.

  • Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
Date:
1876
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    MBOELA. Mboela, Mambari name of Nyenko, 522. Mboenga deserts from Dr. Living- stone, 626 ; takes Nyamoana’s gift, Dr. Livingstone’s message to him, 527. Mburuma, attempts to raise his tribe against Dr. Livingstone, 619 ; ar- rival at his village, 621; visit from his brother, 622; suspicious con- duct of his guides, 6215; Dr. Liv- ingstone distrusted by his people, 624; Dr. Livingstone’s present to, 627. Mead, a cure for fever, 320; of the Iialonda, 323. Mebalwe, a native schoolmaster, his courage in a lion-hunt, 11-13. Medicine, native practice of, 143- 145 ; knowledge of, an aid to mis- sions, 206 ; elephant, the, initiated in, leader of the hunt, 642 ; a good price offered for, 643. Medicines asked for as charms, 622 ; list of native African, 694, 615, note. Melita, at, rendezvous of the Bang- waketse, to destroy the Makololo, 98. Mellot, Senhor, his kind entertain- ment of Dr. Livingstone, 415; Dr. Livingstone’s companion from the Calvi to the Quango, 454. Melons, water, of the Kalahari des- ert, described, 54; large crop of 1S52, 135, 136. Menye-makaba, an island on the Zambesi, feud of its several class- es of inhabitants, 615; detention at, 616. Merchandise, compulsory carriage of, in Angola, 417, 418. Mesembryanthemums of Cape Col- ony, their secreting of moist- ure in drought, 113; propagated by the Boers in arid districts, 114. Mice, multitudes of, near Mashue, their haymaking, 158 ; an article of food, 361. Micombo, a Jesuit settlement near Tete, described, 683. Miland, Mr., his plantations and garden near Sanza, 409. Milk, a substitute for salt, 33 ; im- portance of, to the Bechuanas, 178; Portuguese prejudice against, 456. Milo, the African medlar, 282. Mines, company projected to work East African, 705. Mirage of the desert salinas, 72. Miranda, Lieutenant, Dr. Living- stone's escort to the coast, 607 ; prepares fo» defense at Shiramba, 702; hires Dr. Livingstone’s men for the ascent of the Zambesi, 703; resignation of his commis- sion, 704 ; volunteers to disperse Kisaka's band, 708. Mission, Dr. Livingstone’s, estab- lished at Mabotsa, 11; at Slio- kuane, 21; removal to Kolobeng, 22; circumstances of the native tribes adverse to, 33; difficulties from without, 85 ; destroyed by the Boers, 45. Missionaries, expediency of their trading discussed, 39, 40; their daily work described, 47; pa- MOHORISI. tiencc and an enterprising spirit, necessary qualifications of, 130, 131; resources and necessary ex- penditures of, 208; Jesuit, high reputation of, 444; permanence of their teaching, 445. Missionary address, prominent theme of, 341; difficulty of con- veying through an interpreter, 344. Missionary efforts, indirect good influence of, 21; serious liin- derances to, in Africa, 83; pro- moted by trade, 34; the Bible a substitute for, 129 ; circumstances weakening, in South Africa, 130 ; mistakes in, 131; injury done by sectarianism to, 132; apparent ill success of, good insensibly de- rived from, 176 ; ill directed, 544 ; district of Africa best prepared for, 544, 645 ; all earnest labor, in some measure, 718, 719; im- portance of an established com- merce to, 720. Missionary life, definitively em- braced by Dr. Livingstone, 8 ; qualifications necessary for, 8, 22 ; toils, privations, compensations of, 46. Missionary societies, stations in Af- rica to be occupied by, 721. Missionary teaching, advantages re- sulting from, to Uriquas and Be- chuanas, 121-123. Mitilone, proposed as a port of the Zambesi, 707 ; light-house and vil- lage at, proposed, 718 Moamba, the, latitude of, 490 ; geo- logical structure of its slopes, 491. Mobala, last friendly chief met in the descent of the Zambesi, 619. Mobola, a fruit dried by the Ban- yati, 257. Mochoasele, the first Bechuana who learned the existence of white men, 16. Moena, Kilkanje, border Chiboque chief, 4S3. Moenda en Goma, hills at the en- trance of Lupata, 701. Moene Dilolo, entertains Dr. Liv- ingstone, 516. Moffat, Mr., missionary settlement of, at Kuruman, 8; dam made by him at Kuruman, 124; his “ Scenes and Labors in South Africa,” translation of the Bible, 127, 12S; receives Sechele’s chil- dren, Sechele's letter to, 132, 133 ; packages sent by, lodged on an island, 539 ; curious meteorologic- al phenomenon observed by, 638, 639. Mogametsa, an African bean, 282. Moliango, a pass through wooded hills, 523. Mohatla, an aromatic shrub, 126. Mohetolo, the indigo plant, 85. Mohohu, Bechuana term for the white rhinoceros, 654. Mohonono bush, thickets of, its edi- ble bark, 185. Moliorisi, taunts Lerlmo with cowardice, 267 ; his boldness during the attack of the C'hi- boque, 370; comforts Dr. Liv- ingstone with assurances of fidel- ity, 381, 382 ; projects a Mako- lolo village on the Leeba, 519 ; MONZE. marries a wife in Katema’s torn 526 ; his readiness to promote d rect trade with Europeans, 565 Mohotluane, the wells of, destroyi bjy digging too deeply, 63. 1 Moisture sensibly cooling the » mosphere, 453. Mokantsa, a tall Bushman, 183. Mokoko, the, a dry river-bed' c the Kalahari desert, 70 ; ancien ly spreading to a large lake, 7] temporary flood of, 177. Mokokonyani, a water-pool in tl bed of the Mokoko, 71. Mokoronga, the, a fruit-tree, in tl Mopane country, 654 Mokorozi, the, a rivulet feeding tl Zambesi, 679; gold-washing L 6S2. Mokuri, herbaceous creeper with ti berous root, 54; an edible tub of the Mopane country, 670. Mokwa-reza, the, its cry, in habi resembling the cuckoo, 598. Mokwala, his present to Br. Li ingstone, 527. Mokwanka, a district bordering c the Leeba, recently occupied l Shinte, 331. Mokwine, Batoka of, sent wii Dr. Livingstone, 572; bad fee ing of his tribesmen toward >1 nahin, 665. Mola, an African forest tree, 575. Molekane, an address inciting 1 hospitality, 166. Moles eaten by Katende’s peopl 361. Molinge, the, a sand river fallin into the Nuke, 650. Molompi, -wood used for pad (Ik- 223 ; found in the Londa forest 306. Molondo, a fruit-tree of the Batoki 591. Monahin, a Makololo in comman of Batoka, 572; attacked by ii sanity, leaves the camp, 662; h unfortunate position with the Bi toka, vain search for, 665. Monakadzi, a mountain, the soun of the Lefqje, 308 ; valley stretcl ing to the ridges of, 311; its heigl above the valley, 5S3. Mona-Kalueje, the, a branch of tt Lokalueje, 339. Monasteries, lessons to be learne from, 131. Monato, African acacia, 62. Monenga, heroine of the traditioi ary story of Lake Dilolo, 353. Money, calico a substitute for, 41( 6S0 ; fish, 437 ; salt, 441. Monina, arrival at his village, hi popularity, 660; boys sent to b educated in his household, 661 hostile demonstrations of hi young men, 662 ; his wive* sui mit to the ordeal “muavi, £65. Monomotapa, degeneracy of th present honors pai&by the Bortr guese to the former, 660. Mononga-zambi, a fruit-tree on tn table-land overlooking the Quang valley, 365. „ Monteiro, Major, his visit to w zembe, 685. Monze, paramount chief of the i toka, his reception of Dr. 1-1 ingstone, 593; a substitute *