A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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... Trees and fruit - Mode of making bark - cloth- -Natural history - Native club - house - Dances and games - De- scription of a Sultan - Women of the country - Slaves in irons- Release of a slave - Native cookery - The negro on parade ...
... Trees and fruit - Mode of making bark - cloth- -Natural history - Native club - house - Dances and games - De- scription of a Sultan - Women of the country - Slaves in irons- Release of a slave - Native cookery - The negro on parade ...
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... tree , which lines the banks of the Nile about 7 ° north latitude . Bajra ; the Indian name for a grain ( Penicillaria spicata ) , grown in Africa . Byre ; the jujube - tree , Zyzyphus jujuba , called M'konazee in Wasua- hili language ...
... tree , which lines the banks of the Nile about 7 ° north latitude . Bajra ; the Indian name for a grain ( Penicillaria spicata ) , grown in Africa . Byre ; the jujube - tree , Zyzyphus jujuba , called M'konazee in Wasua- hili language ...
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... trees are called by this name in Uganda . Watuta ; a plundering , restless race , supposed to be a branch from the Zulu Kaffirs of the Cape . They have spread as far north at 34 ° south latitude . Wezee ; a short expression for the ...
... trees are called by this name in Uganda . Watuta ; a plundering , restless race , supposed to be a branch from the Zulu Kaffirs of the Cape . They have spread as far north at 34 ° south latitude . Wezee ; a short expression for the ...
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... trees . The spice was being gathered by men on tripod ladders on the 6th September . Cotton we rarely saw . The cocoa - nut is the most common tree in the country- the husk , we observed , being used as firewood , and a capital salad is ...
... trees . The spice was being gathered by men on tripod ladders on the 6th September . Cotton we rarely saw . The cocoa - nut is the most common tree in the country- the husk , we observed , being used as firewood , and a capital salad is ...
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... trees for twenty marches . At the ninth stage , from a ridge of rising ground com- posed of small pebbles in rotten sandstone , we saw distant hills to the north - west , and had a good view of the sluggish , winding Kingani , which we ...
... trees for twenty marches . At the ninth stage , from a ridge of rising ground com- posed of small pebbles in rotten sandstone , we saw distant hills to the north - west , and had a good view of the sluggish , winding Kingani , which we ...
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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