DR. LIVINGSTONE’S COMPASS.
Mr Commissioner Sharpe, in his report on British Central Africa says that a recent incident at Tete, on the Zambesi River, has been the recovery by Mr Vice-Concul “Wallis of the old compass used by Dr. Livingstone on bis Zambesi journeys. It is a French ship’s compass, which ins been tilted with eights in order to simplify the taking of observations. Dr. Livingstone had mounted it on a home-made turntable It had been for manyyears in the possession of a Portuguese gentleman at Tete.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12265, 11 October 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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87DR. LIVINGSTONE’S COMPASS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12265, 11 October 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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