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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... bush fire , the consequences of which would have been terrible . I there- fore fired a gun , and was answered by another shot , seemingly far away over the plain to the right . Telling the men to sit down and rest themselves on the path ...
... bush fire , the consequences of which would have been terrible . I there- fore fired a gun , and was answered by another shot , seemingly far away over the plain to the right . Telling the men to sit down and rest themselves on the path ...
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... the stirrup - irons ; a fraction of a second later he was out of the saddle and behind a bush , while George emulated his example with a promptitude that could only have been rendered 44 THROUGH KIKUYU TO GALLA - LAND .
... the stirrup - irons ; a fraction of a second later he was out of the saddle and behind a bush , while George emulated his example with a promptitude that could only have been rendered 44 THROUGH KIKUYU TO GALLA - LAND .
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... bush was absolutely impenetrable , except for the low tunnels made by wandering hippopotamus , which indicated the presence of water not far off . These tunnels gave the scrub the appearance of a gigantic rabbit- warren , in which we ...
... bush was absolutely impenetrable , except for the low tunnels made by wandering hippopotamus , which indicated the presence of water not far off . These tunnels gave the scrub the appearance of a gigantic rabbit- warren , in which we ...
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... bushes . The old man to whom he handed it gazed wonderingly after him for a moment , then , placing the fatal weed between his aged lips , he took a long pull and inhaled the smoke . A startled look appeared in his dim old eyes , and he ...
... bushes . The old man to whom he handed it gazed wonderingly after him for a moment , then , placing the fatal weed between his aged lips , he took a long pull and inhaled the smoke . A startled look appeared in his dim old eyes , and he ...
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... bush . We doubled the guard at sundown , just before we went to dinner , giving them the most precise instructions in the event of an alarm . At the conclusion of the meal we were startled by a volley from the sentries . The whole camp ...
... bush . We doubled the guard at sundown , just before we went to dinner , giving them the most precise instructions in the event of an alarm . At the conclusion of the meal we were startled by a volley from the sentries . The whole camp ...
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An Ivory Trader in North Kenia: The Record of an Expedition Through Kikuyu ... Alfred Arkell- Hardwick Visualização integral - 1903 |
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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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