AFRICA MEDIA BRITANNIS PATEFACTA. NILIACOS ultra fontes Libycamque paludem, Ergo ignava trahit gens otia, nam neque belli Solum opus arboreas lento de vimine crates 10 1 Vide Livingstone's Journal, p. 215. Gloria-nocturnumve focis arcere leonem. At non continuas, Nomadum de more, perenni Exercent errore vias; stat sedis avitæ Summus honos; rex cuique tribu castusque sacerdos. In medio regi majori fornice tectum Exstruitur, medioque focus1 succenditur igni; Dona negat, qua nigra comis viret umbra, sacerdos Numina, si optatos posset deducere nimbos. Hos ingens Zambesus agros et flumine oberrat 20 30 40 1 Afri enim sub Dio plerumque agunt, ideoque apertis focis utuntur quos "Kotla” appellant.-V. Livingstone, p. 15. 2 V. Livingstone, p. 22. 3 Credunt malevolos esse mortuorum Manes, ac viventibus nocere.-V. Livingstone, pp. 316, 523. 4 V. Livingstone, p. 15. Cæruleo, virides campos et amona salicta Rara quidem errantes-tantum formidinis affert Littus amans fragilique legens brevia æquora cymba. 2 Ib. pp. 81, 82. 3 Sc. N'gami.-Ib. p. 66. 5 V. Livingstone, p. 62. 1 V. Livingstone, p. 231. 50 60 Prensat aquas, fugit unda levis fallitque sequentem. Nauta laborantem vix proram advertit, at illa Sed quid opus quam multa aperit miracula tellus, Felices latebræ dulcisque ante omnia tellus! 70 80 90 1 "The transparency of the atmosphere exceeds what is known in any other part of the world: the naked eye can perceive stars of two degrees less magnitude than it can discern in the northern sky."-Vide Howison's Foreign Scenes. |