A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 33
... fire at : both barrels from Blanshard " went at my new young friend , who rushed off crashing through the underwood , and I only then saw that the poor old lady was cold dead , and she proved so heavy that three of us could not move her ...
... fire at : both barrels from Blanshard " went at my new young friend , who rushed off crashing through the underwood , and I only then saw that the poor old lady was cold dead , and she proved so heavy that three of us could not move her ...
Side 35
... fire a volley into him ; but they consider that the best place to strike him is just in front of the ear orifice . Eland , hartebeest , black antelope , & c . , and several smaller species , were shot or observed in our constant pursuit ...
... fire a volley into him ; but they consider that the best place to strike him is just in front of the ear orifice . Eland , hartebeest , black antelope , & c . , and several smaller species , were shot or observed in our constant pursuit ...
Side 42
... fires , the odour of their persons , and their total want of delicacy annoy you . All these grievances my companion bore with great patience , and often got the offenders into humour by suggesting a harangue at night , to be delivered ...
... fires , the odour of their persons , and their total want of delicacy annoy you . All these grievances my companion bore with great patience , and often got the offenders into humour by suggesting a harangue at night , to be delivered ...
Side 50
... fires were kept burning round him to keep off the musquitoes . The grate was most original : three stout pegs of green wood driven into the ground , forming an equilateral triangle , answered every purpose of an iron utensil , and on it ...
... fires were kept burning round him to keep off the musquitoes . The grate was most original : three stout pegs of green wood driven into the ground , forming an equilateral triangle , answered every purpose of an iron utensil , and on it ...
Side 55
... fires may be burned in them . Musicians of every sort there ; king has five clocks sent him * At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther than Karague ; but I observe that Speke , in his Journal , states that Moossah ...
... fires may be burned in them . Musicians of every sort there ; king has five clocks sent him * At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther than Karague ; but I observe that Speke , in his Journal , states that Moossah ...
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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