A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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... saying was one well fitted to be remembered and to be told again ; and my friendly publishers and others recom- mended that it should form the leading title of my book . DINGWALL , Ross - SHIRE , December 1 , 1864 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I ...
... saying was one well fitted to be remembered and to be told again ; and my friendly publishers and others recom- mended that it should form the leading title of my book . DINGWALL , Ross - SHIRE , December 1 , 1864 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I ...
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... saying to you with their eyes , Buy me from this yoke of slavery ! " It is a very striking though most humiliat- ing sight to observe one of the Zanzibar rakish - looking crafts ( felucca - rigged ) arrive from Ibo , on the main- land ...
... saying to you with their eyes , Buy me from this yoke of slavery ! " It is a very striking though most humiliat- ing sight to observe one of the Zanzibar rakish - looking crafts ( felucca - rigged ) arrive from Ibo , on the main- land ...
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... saying his master must have so many cloths , with various other articles , and he must himself have so many more . Strong arguments and menaces would follow , and it sometimes took several days to the confer- ence , as the sultan would ...
... saying his master must have so many cloths , with various other articles , and he must himself have so many more . Strong arguments and menaces would follow , and it sometimes took several days to the confer- ence , as the sultan would ...
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... saying , " Look here what I have suffered by being induced to come upon this horrible journey ! My life - blood is running , " & c . He had evidently been drinking . No time was to be lost . I thought from the first that I should have ...
... saying , " Look here what I have suffered by being induced to come upon this horrible journey ! My life - blood is running , " & c . He had evidently been drinking . No time was to be lost . I thought from the first that I should have ...
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... saying they were sorry they had come so far . We were told that smallpox was the most fatal disease in this part of the country , but we saw no cases . The general elevation of the country is 3400 feet , rising gently up to the low ...
... saying they were sorry they had come so far . We were told that smallpox was the most fatal disease in this part of the country , but we saw no cases . The general elevation of the country is 3400 feet , rising gently up to the low ...
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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