| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: her ancient mates, the slaves of Cuba, an influence as
unbounded as its reason is mysterious. Horrible rites, it is
supposed, cement her empire: the rites of Hoodoo. Be that
as it may, I would have you dismiss the thought of this
incomparable witch; it is not from her that danger threatens
us; and into her hands, I make bold to promise, you shall
never fall.'
'Father!' I cried. 'Fall? Was there any truth, then, in her
words? Am I - O father, tell me plain; I can bear anything
but this suspense.'
'I will tell you,' he replied, with merciful bluntness.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me
before these papers can come into your possession.
Last Monday (July 3lst) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed
in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which
she floated. Our situation was somewhat dangerous, especially as we
were compassed round by a very thick fog. We accordingly lay to,
hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and weather.
About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched
out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which
seemed to have no end. Some of my comrades groaned, and my
own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a
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