The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, etc. CUL-DAR46.1.31. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.1 contains Notes for Natural selection chap. 5 'Struggle for existence'.

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Livingstone Missionary Travels 1857 p. 136 (Ch 5) gives an account of so many wild animals dying of diseases, & Lions reduced from toothless condition to prey on mice & domestic animals & man, whom they otherwise fear—

p 142 Lions sometimes kill Elephant-calf

[Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London, 1857. x, 107.]

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