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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... plantain , regarded in this country as the staff of life . At length they worked up to a bare eminence , command- ing the whole plain they had left behind . To the north VIEW FROM THE HEIGHTS . 61 . was the Makumbara.
... plantain , regarded in this country as the staff of life . At length they worked up to a bare eminence , command- ing the whole plain they had left behind . To the north VIEW FROM THE HEIGHTS . 61 . was the Makumbara.
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... plantains , melons , cotton , sugar - cane , pulse and vegetables , ivories , and some- times slaves . On the 3d of March 1858 he set out in a long narrow canoe , hollowed out of the trunk of a single tree . The party was composed of ...
... plantains , melons , cotton , sugar - cane , pulse and vegetables , ivories , and some- times slaves . On the 3d of March 1858 he set out in a long narrow canoe , hollowed out of the trunk of a single tree . The party was composed of ...
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... plantains , the common weeds being enormous thistles and wild indigo . Beyond that there were high undulations , over which in the far distance they could see a line of cones , something like the extinct volcanoes of Auvergne ; and in ...
... plantains , the common weeds being enormous thistles and wild indigo . Beyond that there were high undulations , over which in the far distance they could see a line of cones , something like the extinct volcanoes of Auvergne ; and in ...
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... rock , the face of a long , bare , sloping hill may be seen , the surface of which is half rock , half bog , like a Highland moor , except that the landscape is 174 SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION . diversified by plantain gardens .
... rock , the face of a long , bare , sloping hill may be seen , the surface of which is half rock , half bog , like a Highland moor , except that the landscape is 174 SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION . diversified by plantain gardens .
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... plantain gardens . At another time , wal- nut - sized nodules of iron covered with rusty dust might be picked up , which the natives know how to convert into glistening spear - heads . Then the lofty escarpments , raised into their ...
... plantain gardens . At another time , wal- nut - sized nodules of iron covered with rusty dust might be picked up , which the natives know how to convert into glistening spear - heads . Then the lofty escarpments , raised into their ...
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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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