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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... Range , but , as I shall show , I have very good reason to believe that it rises in the western slopes of Kenia Mountain itself . The Waso Nyiro does not empty itself into the sea , but ends in a swamp called Lorian , the position of ...
... Range , but , as I shall show , I have very good reason to believe that it rises in the western slopes of Kenia Mountain itself . The Waso Nyiro does not empty itself into the sea , but ends in a swamp called Lorian , the position of ...
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... 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 sixth and last ...
... 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 sixth and last ...
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... , impala , and waterbuck , but the country was perfectly flat and open and the wind most vexatiously variable , so that , do what we would , we could not get within range . I managed to bag a FROM KRIGER'S TO MARANGA . 31.
... , impala , and waterbuck , but the country was perfectly flat and open and the wind most vexatiously variable , so that , do what we would , we could not get within range . I managed to bag a FROM KRIGER'S TO MARANGA . 31.
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... range . I managed to bag a hare with the before - mentioned piece of mechanism which Knapp mis- called a shot - gun . Soon afterwards we were traversing some broken rocky ground when Kriger suddenly exclaimed , " Look , there are some ...
... range . I managed to bag a hare with the before - mentioned piece of mechanism which Knapp mis- called a shot - gun . Soon afterwards we were traversing some broken rocky ground when Kriger suddenly exclaimed , " Look , there are some ...
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... range , and fortunately hit him ; but we put three bullets each into the beast before it dropped , so remark- ably tenacious of life are these animals . We returned to camp at dusk , thoroughly tired out . I retired to rest imme ...
... range , and fortunately hit him ; but we put three bullets each into the beast before it dropped , so remark- ably tenacious of life are these animals . We returned to camp at dusk , thoroughly tired out . I retired to rest imme ...
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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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