Addition to David Livingstone's Field Diary XVII
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11 o,cloak._night 28th. April
In the chest was found
about a shilling and
half, and in another chest
his hat, 1 watch, and 2
small boxes of measuring
instrument and on in each box
there was one. 1 com-
pass, 3 other kind of mea-
suring instrument;
4 other kind of measur[-]
ing instrument.
And in other chest 3
and half and half drachmas
0032
half scrople.
Item Details
Author(s) & contributor(s): Jacob Wainwright
Date(s): 28 April 1873
Place(s) of creation: Chitambo's village
Form & transmission history: Addition in author's hand to a manuscript diary by a British explorer.
Object description: Bound beige diary pages with minor discoloration, with one hand in pencil with minor editing.
Repository: David Livingstone Centre (Blantyre, United Kingdom)
Shelfmark / Identifier: 360
Digital edition & date: One More Voice, 2020
Critical editing & encoding: Adrian S. Wisnicki, Heather F. Ball, Anne Martin, Kate Simpson, Christopher Lawrence
Cite this digital edition (MLA): Wainwright, Jacob. “Addition to David Livingstone's Field Diary XVII” (28 April 1873). Adrian S. Wisnicki, Heather F. Ball, Anne Martin, Kate Simpson, Christopher Lawrence, eds. One More Voice, site launch edition, 2020, https://onemorevoice.org/html/transcriptions/liv_000017_TEI.html.
Rights: Critically-edited text copyright Livingstone Online/One More Voice. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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