An Ivory Trader in North Kenia: The Record of an Expedition Through Kikuyu to Galla-land in East Equatorial Africa. With an Account of the Rendili and Burkeneji TribesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 368 páginas |
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... animals , and , beyond an inconvenient habit , of which we never cured them , of shying occasionally and then ... animal , was known as n'yumbu m'dogo , i.e. " the little mule . " It was ridden exclusively by El Hakim . After George's ...
... animals , and , beyond an inconvenient habit , of which we never cured them , of shying occasionally and then ... animal , was known as n'yumbu m'dogo , i.e. " the little mule . " It was ridden exclusively by El Hakim . After George's ...
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... animal at short range . All four took effect , as I distinctly saw the dust spurt from his hide in little puffs where they struck . At the fourth shot he swerved aside , when within fifteen yards of me , and as he turned I gave him my ...
... animal at short range . All four took effect , as I distinctly saw the dust spurt from his hide in little puffs where they struck . At the fourth shot he swerved aside , when within fifteen yards of me , and as he turned I gave him my ...
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... animals . We returned to camp at dusk , thoroughly tired out . I retired to rest imme- diately after dinner , thus concluding a not entirely uneventful day . We did not march the next day , as El Hakim wished to examine the surrounding ...
... animals . We returned to camp at dusk , thoroughly tired out . I retired to rest imme- diately after dinner , thus concluding a not entirely uneventful day . We did not march the next day , as El Hakim wished to examine the surrounding ...
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... animals were still on the wrong side of the river . We accordingly camped on the bank , and sent a guard of three men back again to look after them during the night . At daylight next morning we proceeded to get the animals across by ...
... animals were still on the wrong side of the river . We accordingly camped on the bank , and sent a guard of three men back again to look after them during the night . At daylight next morning we proceeded to get the animals across by ...
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... animals on it , so we had to fall back on our rope , and haul them across a little higher up the river , where the water was deeper and the current consequently less violent . Just below the bridge were a series of magnificent cascades ...
... animals on it , so we had to fall back on our rope , and haul them across a little higher up the river , where the water was deeper and the current consequently less violent . Just below the bridge were a series of magnificent cascades ...
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A'kikuyu afternoon animals appeared arrival bank beads beast Bei-Munithu boma Borana bullet bush camels cartridges cattle cloth CO.'S STANDARD Coloured crossed Crown 8vo donkeys Doum palms Edition El Hakim elephant Embe Essays feet fire gilt edges gilt top gneiss grantei grass Green Camp Hakim and George half halted herd hippopotamus hour hundred yards Illustrations Jamah journey Jumbi Kenia killed Lake Rudolph large numbers loads LONGMANS & CO.'S Lorian M'thara Maps Maragua Maranga Masai Max Müller meat miles mule Munithu N'Dominuki Nairobi natives night o'clock once ourselves palms path Plates porters Portraits Ramathani reached Rendili rhino rhinoceros rifle river round Sadi ben safari seemed sent sheep shooting shot shouted side Somalis soon spear Swahilis swamp tent took tribe turned tusk village vols Wa'Embe Wa'kamba waited walked Wandorobbo Waso Nyiro Wasungu zebra Zura
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