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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... living , and we may safely say that Speke was the beau idéal of a discoverer . In attempting to give , in a succinct form , the African experiences embodied in his notes and those . INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 3 of Captain Grant , it is.
... living , and we may safely say that Speke was the beau idéal of a discoverer . In attempting to give , in a succinct form , the African experiences embodied in his notes and those . INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 3 of Captain Grant , it is.
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... give himself up to the avenger of blood . The whole tribe then marches out to enforce an execution in cattle supposed to corre- spond to the injury inflicted , and this being resisted , and new lives lost , the balance of blood - money ...
... give himself up to the avenger of blood . The whole tribe then marches out to enforce an execution in cattle supposed to corre- spond to the injury inflicted , and this being resisted , and new lives lost , the balance of blood - money ...
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... give a temporary strength to the herbage . According to traditional histories which Speke obtained from the natives , the present race of Somali have occupied the country for about four centuries and a half . About the year 1413 an Arab ...
... give a temporary strength to the herbage . According to traditional histories which Speke obtained from the natives , the present race of Somali have occupied the country for about four centuries and a half . About the year 1413 an Arab ...
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... give him a great deal of trouble , as some of them were picked up by wandering Dulbahantas who did not know what to make of them , and thought that they were evidence of some design to mark out the country for sinister purposes . The ...
... give him a great deal of trouble , as some of them were picked up by wandering Dulbahantas who did not know what to make of them , and thought that they were evidence of some design to mark out the country for sinister purposes . The ...
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... give up all his property . The camp , being near a watering - place , was a point of attraction to all the loose ruffians in the country ; and at last Speke , finding it getting too hot to remain any longer , moved to a place somewhat ...
... give up all his property . The camp , being near a watering - place , was a point of attraction to all the loose ruffians in the country ; and at last Speke , finding it getting too hot to remain any longer , moved to a place somewhat ...
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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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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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