A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side viii
... interesting . But nothing can be of such permanent value to the work as a well - defined account of the rainy system and its operation upon vegetable life , showing why the first three degrees of north latitude are richer than the first ...
... interesting . But nothing can be of such permanent value to the work as a well - defined account of the rainy system and its operation upon vegetable life , showing why the first three degrees of north latitude are richer than the first ...
Side 3
... interesting , every curve in the Simplon - like road unfolding fresh beauties . Tree- ferns , the papau , and air - plants of every colour , clothed the hill - sides . At dusk we reached Petro- polis , a hill sanatorium , where we ...
... interesting , every curve in the Simplon - like road unfolding fresh beauties . Tree- ferns , the papau , and air - plants of every colour , clothed the hill - sides . At dusk we reached Petro- polis , a hill sanatorium , where we ...
Side 7
... interesting sight at a ship - provisioner's : in his back premises we found a sewing - school of ne- gro boys and girls , presided over by a black sempstress ; the boys were on one side and the girls on the other , Quaker fashion , all ...
... interesting sight at a ship - provisioner's : in his back premises we found a sewing - school of ne- gro boys and girls , presided over by a black sempstress ; the boys were on one side and the girls on the other , Quaker fashion , all ...
Side 28
... interesting to me that I noted them rather fully , and think a few quotations from the Journal now and then may not be unacceptable . Extract : " 8th Nov. '60 . - Peters reported ill yesterday ; teeth clenched , eyes rolling , body ...
... interesting to me that I noted them rather fully , and think a few quotations from the Journal now and then may not be unacceptable . Extract : " 8th Nov. '60 . - Peters reported ill yesterday ; teeth clenched , eyes rolling , body ...
Side 35
... interesting : he is about three times the size of the hare . We saw very few of the latter ; they were the same colour as the English , but smaller , with ears disproportionately large ; they seemed to run more like rabbits than hares ...
... interesting : he is about three times the size of the hare . We saw very few of the latter ; they were the same colour as the English , but smaller , with ears disproportionately large ; they seemed to run more like rabbits than hares ...
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A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
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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