Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the Nile. Comp. from the Memoirs of Captains Speke and GrantW. Blackwood and Sons, 1868 - 342 páginas |
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... Beluches to be a barrier to the navigation of the river farther inland . They descended the Tongue hill by its northern slopes , and threaded the forest inland , arching round by north to westward . Then they passed to the north of the ...
... Beluches to be a barrier to the navigation of the river farther inland . They descended the Tongue hill by its northern slopes , and threaded the forest inland , arching round by north to westward . Then they passed to the north of the ...
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... Beluches by which he was to quit the service he was in and attach himself to Speke . After an attack of yellow fever at Pangani , from which both Speke and Burton suffered , they returned to Zanzibar , reaching it on the 6th of March ...
... Beluches by which he was to quit the service he was in and attach himself to Speke . After an attack of yellow fever at Pangani , from which both Speke and Burton suffered , they returned to Zanzibar , reaching it on the 6th of March ...
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... Beluches had to be paid very highly for volunteering on extra service . The only man who knew the coast language had to be engaged with great persuasion as kirangozi or leader , and then porters had to be found . Bombay himself turned ...
... Beluches had to be paid very highly for volunteering on extra service . The only man who knew the coast language had to be engaged with great persuasion as kirangozi or leader , and then porters had to be found . Bombay himself turned ...
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... Beluches hav- ing by this time quite recovered their tempers . The first five miles lay over flattish ground , winding among low straggling hills of the same formation as the whole surface of Unyamuézi , diversified with granite out ...
... Beluches hav- ing by this time quite recovered their tempers . The first five miles lay over flattish ground , winding among low straggling hills of the same formation as the whole surface of Unyamuézi , diversified with granite out ...
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... ahead was now said to be unsafe , but on they went , after delays and wranglings among the men . Several kinds of antelopes were seen , and the Beluches fired at an 94 SINGULAR NATURAL PILLARS . ostrich . Their route appeared.
... ahead was now said to be unsafe , but on they went , after delays and wranglings among the men . Several kinds of antelopes were seen , and the Beluches fired at an 94 SINGULAR NATURAL PILLARS . ostrich . Their route appeared.
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Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the ... George Carless Swayne,John Hanning Speke Visualização integral - 1868 |
Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the ... George Carless Swayne,John Hanning Speke Visualização integral - 1868 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
antelope appeared Arabs arms arrived beads beautiful Beluches Berbera birds boats Bombay brought Budja buffaloes called camp canoe caravan cattle chief cloth coast colour court covered cows Crown 8vo Dagara dressed drums Edition elephants escort expedition Fcap feet Gani gave goats Gondokoro grass hands hartebeest head heard hills hippopotami horn huts journey Kamrasi Karagué Karuma Falls Kazé Kidi killed king of Uganda king's Kingani Kitangulé lake land looked Manua mbugu miles Mtésa natives night Nile officers palace party passed Petherick plantain pombé porters present rhinoceros river round royal Rumanika Seedis seemed seen sent shot side skin Somali spears Speke Speke and Grant sultan Suwarora tion took trees Uganda Ugogo Ujiji Unyamuézi Unyanyembé Unyoro Usui valley Victoria Nyanza village vols Waganda Wahuma Wakungu walked Wanguana Wanyoro Watusi white rhinoceros women wore Zanzibar
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