A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 12
... carried fully a mile from a hot spring , which bubbles from under rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords , & c ...
... carried fully a mile from a hot spring , which bubbles from under rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords , & c ...
Side 17
... carrying us to the Indian Ocean , and put in for the night on a coral isle . Our brave crew of blacks , the same class of men who subsequently accompanied us upon our expedi- tion , started again at four in the morning , rowing , off ...
... carrying us to the Indian Ocean , and put in for the night on a coral isle . Our brave crew of blacks , the same class of men who subsequently accompanied us upon our expedi- tion , started again at four in the morning , rowing , off ...
Side 19
... carried out , and that had I not been present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness the ...
... carried out , and that had I not been present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness the ...
Side 23
... carrying ammunition . Five donkeys to carry the sick . Twenty - five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages , and we had the under - mentioned casualties during the journey : - Private Peters dead ; Five other ...
... carrying ammunition . Five donkeys to carry the sick . Twenty - five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages , and we had the under - mentioned casualties during the journey : - Private Peters dead ; Five other ...
Side 29
... carried in a blanket , four Tots with a corner each . The corporal , Speke , and myself formed the procession , the corporal carrying a hatchet and two sword - bayonets to extend the grave if necessary . Found only a grave one foot deep ...
... carried in a blanket , four Tots with a corner each . The corporal , Speke , and myself formed the procession , the corporal carrying a hatchet and two sword - bayonets to extend the grave if necessary . Found only a grave one foot deep ...
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African amongst animals appeared Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful Berber birds Blue Nile boat Bombay brought Budja camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries Crown Octavo dressed drums Edition Faloro feet Foolscap four fowls Frij goats Gondokoro grain grass guns hair hands handsome head heard hills horns houses iron ivory JOHN HILL BURTON journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves looked M'tessa Madi Manua miles morning musquitoes natives never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika sand Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees Turks tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyoro village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild women wood yards Zanzibar