A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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... streams - Gondokoro - Meeting with Mr Samuel Baker - Mr and Mrs Petherick arrive at Gondo- koro - Trade and traders - The Nile , and mode of ferrying it— Embark in Baker's boats for Khartoom , 327 361 xiv CONTENTS . CHAPTER XVI . PAGE ...
... streams - Gondokoro - Meeting with Mr Samuel Baker - Mr and Mrs Petherick arrive at Gondo- koro - Trade and traders - The Nile , and mode of ferrying it— Embark in Baker's boats for Khartoom , 327 361 xiv CONTENTS . CHAPTER XVI . PAGE ...
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... streams , margined by a most luxuriant flora , I know of no such charming spot within the tropics . Its harbour , however , is a dangerous coral basin or lagoon . On the 17th August the island of Zanzibar came in sight ; also four ...
... streams , margined by a most luxuriant flora , I know of no such charming spot within the tropics . Its harbour , however , is a dangerous coral basin or lagoon . On the 17th August the island of Zanzibar came in sight ; also four ...
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... cane , grass , cocoa - nut , manioc , yams , sweet po- tato , Indian corn , ground - nut , & c . , go in streams to the market . The return of these crowds is , in con- FRUITS AND VEGETABLES . 15 trast , utterly ludicrous .
... cane , grass , cocoa - nut , manioc , yams , sweet po- tato , Indian corn , ground - nut , & c . , go in streams to the market . The return of these crowds is , in con- FRUITS AND VEGETABLES . 15 trast , utterly ludicrous .
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... stream 40 to 50 yards across , with steep clay banks 16 feet above the water , and winding so much that no steamer could make its sharp turns . Canoes ferried it . One well , or puddle , a short distance from this river , made our ...
... stream 40 to 50 yards across , with steep clay banks 16 feet above the water , and winding so much that no steamer could make its sharp turns . Canoes ferried it . One well , or puddle , a short distance from this river , made our ...
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... stream , they run out , like good fellows , to meet you with a drink . Let it be hot , bitter , or black as ditch - water , thirst is allayed ; and , on looking to see whence the luxury came , you observe the men standing in a miry pool ...
... stream , they run out , like good fellows , to meet you with a drink . Let it be hot , bitter , or black as ditch - water , thirst is allayed ; and , on looking to see whence the luxury came , you observe the men standing in a miry pool ...
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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