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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... spear - The Rendili - Their appearance - Clothing - Ornaments -Weapons - Household utensils - Morals and manners . CHAPTER XIV . THE SEARCH FOR LORIAN . Exchanging presents with the Rendili - El Hakim bitten by a scorpion - We start for ...
... spear - The Rendili - Their appearance - Clothing - Ornaments -Weapons - Household utensils - Morals and manners . CHAPTER XIV . THE SEARCH FOR LORIAN . Exchanging presents with the Rendili - El Hakim bitten by a scorpion - We start for ...
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... and vacant stare . On a shout from Koranja and a threatening motion of his spear , it would slink mournfully away into the deeper recesses of the jungle . We reached a small clearing about midday , and camped FROM THE TANA TO M'BU . 59.
... and vacant stare . On a shout from Koranja and a threatening motion of his spear , it would slink mournfully away into the deeper recesses of the jungle . We reached a small clearing about midday , and camped FROM THE TANA TO M'BU . 59.
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... spears and clubs and yelling like demons . If a shot had been fired , we should have been in rather a tight place , for , as I have said , the camp was quite open , and practically defenceless . If the A'kikuyu had rushed us , then the ...
... spears and clubs and yelling like demons . If a shot had been fired , we should have been in rather a tight place , for , as I have said , the camp was quite open , and practically defenceless . If the A'kikuyu had rushed us , then the ...
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... spear - wounds and also horribly hacked and chopped about with " simes ( native swords ) . Their loads had disappeared altogether . " " El Hakim gave directions for the safari to go on ZURA TO M'THARA , AND A VISIT TO EMBE . 85.
... spear - wounds and also horribly hacked and chopped about with " simes ( native swords ) . Their loads had disappeared altogether . " " El Hakim gave directions for the safari to go on ZURA TO M'THARA , AND A VISIT TO EMBE . 85.
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... spear , bade him begone , accompanying his words with contemptuous gestures . El Hakim never moved a hair , but quietly repeated his demand , adding that if the murderers were not given up he would hold the chief personally responsible ...
... spear , bade him begone , accompanying his words with contemptuous gestures . El Hakim never moved a hair , but quietly repeated his demand , adding that if the murderers were not given up he would hold the chief personally responsible ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
A'kikuyu afternoon animals appeared arrived 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 top gneiss grantei grass Green Camp guides Hakim and George half herd hippopotamus hour hundred yards Illustrations Ismail Jamah journey Jumbi Kenia killed Lake Rudolph large numbers loads LONGMANS & CO.'S look Lorian Lubo 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 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