A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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Página 33
... fire at : both barrels from " Blanshard " went at my new young friend , who rushed off crashing through the underwood , and I only then saw that the poor old lady was cold dead , and she proved so heavy that three of us could not move ...
... fire at : both barrels from " Blanshard " went at my new young friend , who rushed off crashing through the underwood , and I only then saw that the poor old lady was cold dead , and she proved so heavy that three of us could not move ...
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... fire a volley into him ; but they consider that the best place to strike him is just in front of the ear orifice . Eland , hartebeest , black antelope , & c . , and several smaller species , were shot or observed in our constant pursuit ...
... fire a volley into him ; but they consider that the best place to strike him is just in front of the ear orifice . Eland , hartebeest , black antelope , & c . , and several smaller species , were shot or observed in our constant pursuit ...
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... fires , the odour of their persons , and their total want of delicacy annoy you . All these grievances my companion bore with great patience , and often got the offenders into humour by suggesting a harangue at night , to be delivered ...
... fires , the odour of their persons , and their total want of delicacy annoy you . All these grievances my companion bore with great patience , and often got the offenders into humour by suggesting a harangue at night , to be delivered ...
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... fires were kept burning round him to keep off the musquitoes . The grate was most original : three stout pegs of green wood driven into the ground , forming an equilateral triangle , answered every purpose of an iron utensil , and on it ...
... fires were kept burning round him to keep off the musquitoes . The grate was most original : three stout pegs of green wood driven into the ground , forming an equilateral triangle , answered every purpose of an iron utensil , and on it ...
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... fires may be burned in them . Musicians of every sort there ; king has five clocks sent him * At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther than Karague ; but I observe that Speke , in his Journal , states that Moossah ...
... fires may be burned in them . Musicians of every sort there ; king has five clocks sent him * At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther than Karague ; but I observe that Speke , in his Journal , states that Moossah ...
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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