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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... miles , till it reached some brown - looking hills in the back- ground , and hills and plain alike seemed almost destitute of vegetation , while , excepting at a village where they had touched , no living creature was to be seen ...
... miles , till it reached some brown - looking hills in the back- ground , and hills and plain alike seemed almost destitute of vegetation , while , excepting at a village where they had touched , no living creature was to be seen ...
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... . With the sultan's son as guide , the track first led them across the maritime plain , about two miles broad , and composed of sand over- lying limestone , with boulders in the dry shallow water- 26 ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY . courses , and ...
... . With the sultan's son as guide , the track first led them across the maritime plain , about two miles broad , and composed of sand over- lying limestone , with boulders in the dry shallow water- 26 ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY . courses , and ...
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... miles . from Bunder Gori . Here some interesting rock - pigeons , similar to the Indian painted bird , were shot by Speke as they lit at some pools in the bed of the ravine . As they got on , very slowly in consequence of the ...
... miles . from Bunder Gori . Here some interesting rock - pigeons , similar to the Indian painted bird , were shot by Speke as they lit at some pools in the bed of the ravine . As they got on , very slowly in consequence of the ...
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... miles from the camp beyond it the face of the mountain frowned like a bluff wall , which seemed impos- sible for any camel to surmount . The stiffest and last ascent on reaching this was up a winding , narrow goat- path , with sharp ...
... miles from the camp beyond it the face of the mountain frowned like a bluff wall , which seemed impos- sible for any camel to surmount . The stiffest and last ascent on reaching this was up a winding , narrow goat- path , with sharp ...
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... miles in a deep nullah , at an altitude of 3660 feet . Here a halt of two days was made , which Speke spent in shooting and collecting while the cattle rested . Gazelles and antelopes , bustards , florikan , and partridges , as well as ...
... miles in a deep nullah , at an altitude of 3660 feet . Here a halt of two days was made , which Speke spent in shooting and collecting while the cattle rested . Gazelles and antelopes , bustards , florikan , and partridges , as well as ...
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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 |
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antelope appeared Arabs arms arrived beads beautiful Beluches Berbera birds boats Bombay brought Budja buffaloes called camp canoe caravan carried 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 Unyoro Usui valley Victoria Nyanza village vols Waganda Wahuma Wakungu walked Wanguana Wanyoro Watusi white rhinoceros women wore Zanzibar
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