A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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... covering the knuckle . Rahan shrank at first from it , crying out most lustily , and abusing us and Baraka for having brought this misfortune upon him . At last he said , " Go on : do it . " When half through , he pulled away his hand ...
... covering the knuckle . Rahan shrank at first from it , crying out most lustily , and abusing us and Baraka for having brought this misfortune upon him . At last he said , " Go on : do it . " When half through , he pulled away his hand ...
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... covered up . Manure is seldom used ; six months ' fallow would seem to be its substitute . Fields close to villages occasionally get manure , or red clay heaps are spread over the dry , drifting sand - soil of Ugogo . We had no ...
... covered up . Manure is seldom used ; six months ' fallow would seem to be its substitute . Fields close to villages occasionally get manure , or red clay heaps are spread over the dry , drifting sand - soil of Ugogo . We had no ...
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... covered over . The nooses were formed of an elastic bough , stripped of its branches , with the noose hung perpendicularly , neatly concealed and placed in an antelope - frequented track . Diminutive traps were 38 FISH - CATCHING . set ...
... covered over . The nooses were formed of an elastic bough , stripped of its branches , with the noose hung perpendicularly , neatly concealed and placed in an antelope - frequented track . Diminutive traps were 38 FISH - CATCHING . set ...
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... covered with wool , elongated with bark fibre into hanks , and their bodies smeared with an oily pomade of red clay , which soon soils their only covering a cloth wrapped round the loins . The dress of the women is slightly longer , but ...
... covered with wool , elongated with bark fibre into hanks , and their bodies smeared with an oily pomade of red clay , which soon soils their only covering a cloth wrapped round the loins . The dress of the women is slightly longer , but ...
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... covered with grass very neatly . There was but one door ; the hut had no chimney , the smoke finding its way through the light grass roof . I observed a portable Indian " choolah " or fireplace inside the hut , which was kept tidily ...
... covered with grass very neatly . There was but one door ; the hut had no chimney , the smoke finding its way through the light grass roof . I observed a portable Indian " choolah " or fireplace inside the hut , which was kept tidily ...
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A Walk Across Africa Or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal Jam. Aug Grant Visualização integral - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Visualização integral - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Visualização integral - 1864 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Africa amongst animals antelope appeared Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful Berber birds Blue Nile boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries Crown Octavo dressed drums Edition Faloro feet four fowls Frij goats Gondokoro grain grass guns hands handsome head heard hills horns houses iron ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves looked M'tessa Madi Manua Mariboo miles morning musquitoes natives never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika sand Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees Turks tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyoro Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild women wood yards Zanzibar