RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. CUL-DAR85.A51. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 340, n41: "Travels, p. 533."

Livingstone, David. 1857. 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 Luanda, on the west coast: thence across the continent, from the river Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London. [Abstract in CUL-DAR205.11.2.78-80.]


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Livingstone Travels p. 533. The savage Batoka knock out 2 upper middle teeth, which from growth of lower give face hideous look, but the Batoka think their retention hideous & cried out "Look at the great teeth." Cd not be cured of habit by Sebituane.


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