A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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Página xii
... winds , & c . - Blind musicians - Food of the natives - Women at harvest - Coinage and manufactures - Flora of Ukuni - Domestic and wild animals - Sin- gular ceremony with a dead lion - Attack of ants - Sultan and Sul- tana of Ukuni ...
... winds , & c . - Blind musicians - Food of the natives - Women at harvest - Coinage and manufactures - Flora of Ukuni - Domestic and wild animals - Sin- gular ceremony with a dead lion - Attack of ants - Sultan and Sul- tana of Ukuni ...
Página xv
... , or Nyamæra ; a heartebeest antelope . Inteh ; the name for a cow at Karague . Jowari ; a grain , vide sorghum . Kousee ; the name given at Zanzibar to the south - east trade - winds . xvi EXPLANATION OF NAMES AND TERMS . Kivro ; a.
... , or Nyamæra ; a heartebeest antelope . Inteh ; the name for a cow at Karague . Jowari ; a grain , vide sorghum . Kousee ; the name given at Zanzibar to the south - east trade - winds . xvi EXPLANATION OF NAMES AND TERMS . Kivro ; a.
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... wind was ahead ; our crew , a rough set of African lads ; sandbanks were about ; and after splitting our maintop - sail , and many oaths ( strange to say , in English ) from the native commander , trying to put things to rights , we put ...
... wind was ahead ; our crew , a rough set of African lads ; sandbanks were about ; and after splitting our maintop - sail , and many oaths ( strange to say , in English ) from the native commander , trying to put things to rights , we put ...
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... wind behind us on the march , was cooler and less creative of thirst than that of India . Our dress was an English summer one ; no turbans were necessary ; the evenings were delightfully cool ; the sun seldom set in a haze , and one ...
... wind behind us on the march , was cooler and less creative of thirst than that of India . Our dress was an English summer one ; no turbans were necessary ; the evenings were delightfully cool ; the sun seldom set in a haze , and one ...
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... winds were the E. , N.E. , and S.E. , but the coldest were the west- erly after rain . The mornings were foggy , the grass dripped with the night - dew , which interfered with 46 CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE . Speke's observation of the stars.
... winds were the E. , N.E. , and S.E. , but the coldest were the west- erly after rain . The mornings were foggy , the grass dripped with the night - dew , which interfered with 46 CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE . Speke's observation of the stars.
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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 |
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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