A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 12
... dressed , but with a depressed anxious look , saying to you with their eyes , Buy me from this yoke of slavery ! " It is a very striking though most humiliat- ing sight to observe one of the Zanzibar rakish - looking crafts ( felucca ...
... dressed , but with a depressed anxious look , saying to you with their eyes , Buy me from this yoke of slavery ! " It is a very striking though most humiliat- ing sight to observe one of the Zanzibar rakish - looking crafts ( felucca ...
Side 18
... dressed Arabs , brandishing their shields and swords . I thought it was a rescue , but kept my place ; and it appeared they only wanted to get up to the prisoners , around whom every one laughed heartily at the momentary panic . Here ...
... dressed Arabs , brandishing their shields and swords . I thought it was a rescue , but kept my place ; and it appeared they only wanted to get up to the prisoners , around whom every one laughed heartily at the momentary panic . Here ...
Side 19
... dressed , looking like an Indian " Nubbeebux . " The prisoners sat three yards apart , one slightly in advance of the other . The foremost was then ordered to bend his head , when , with one stroke , the back of his neck was cut to the ...
... dressed , looking like an Indian " Nubbeebux . " The prisoners sat three yards apart , one slightly in advance of the other . The foremost was then ordered to bend his head , when , with one stroke , the back of his neck was cut to the ...
Side 27
... dressed wound . This does not include the doses given to natives in camp , who had the greatest faith in the medicine- chest , often sitting round us as it was administered , and asking for the dregs of the glass ! We had an amputation ...
... dressed wound . This does not include the doses given to natives in camp , who had the greatest faith in the medicine- chest , often sitting round us as it was administered , and asking for the dregs of the glass ! We had an amputation ...
Side 38
... dressed for wear . Fish are rarely met with . On the coast , women standing in a circle up to their waists in the sea use their cloths as nets , and encircle small fish . Stake- nets in the form of the letter U , turned in at the apices ...
... dressed for wear . Fish are rarely met with . On the coast , women standing in a circle up to their waists in the sea use their cloths as nets , and encircle small fish . Stake- nets in the form of the letter U , turned in at the apices ...
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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