A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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... nor conveyances of any kind in the country , our whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 60 lb. each , without lock or key , and the porters paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 24 CRIES OF " BOMAH " AND " POSHO .
... nor conveyances of any kind in the country , our whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 60 lb. each , without lock or key , and the porters paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 24 CRIES OF " BOMAH " AND " POSHO .
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... load for as many minutes as he thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an ... loads stacked amidst cries of " Bomah ! " or ring - fence , and " Posho ! " or food , the first concern with every ...
... load for as many minutes as he thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an ... loads stacked amidst cries of " Bomah ! " or ring - fence , and " Posho ! " or food , the first concern with every ...
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... person , who walked 80 miles to induce them to accompany us . Ultimately we moved off by detachments , and accom- plished 90 miles , with 110 men's loads , in 75 days . 58 ROUTE TO MINEENGA . To describe this country and.
... person , who walked 80 miles to induce them to accompany us . Ultimately we moved off by detachments , and accom- plished 90 miles , with 110 men's loads , in 75 days . 58 ROUTE TO MINEENGA . To describe this country and.
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... load of wood cost but one string of ordinary beads . In short , our men lived luxuriously on their daily allowance of one string of beads per man . The people preferred keeping a few milk - cows , being more productive than oxen , which ...
... load of wood cost but one string of ordinary beads . In short , our men lived luxuriously on their daily allowance of one string of beads per man . The people preferred keeping a few milk - cows , being more productive than oxen , which ...
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... load of four large black geese , weighing 9 lb. each , having curious horny spurs to their shoulders , and taking to trees on being wounded . Farther south I had seen the same kind flapping their wings and pluming themselves between ...
... load of four large black geese , weighing 9 lb. each , having curious horny spurs to their shoulders , and taking to trees on being wounded . Farther south I had seen the same kind flapping their wings and pluming themselves between ...
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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