A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 13
... skins , bags of bone ; and the outer one of all such a skeleton that I listened to ascertain whether he breathed . Certainly the mares looked more comfortable when picketed in the morning in the open yard upon sand , and tied loosely by ...
... skins , bags of bone ; and the outer one of all such a skeleton that I listened to ascertain whether he breathed . Certainly the mares looked more comfortable when picketed in the morning in the open yard upon sand , and tied loosely by ...
Side 24
... skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses . Generally there was an argument to settle how long the march should continue ; and many were the excuses found for a ...
... skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses . Generally there was an argument to settle how long the march should continue ; and many were the excuses found for a ...
Side 34
... skin , which they converted into excellent sandals . For days afterwards , as they passed to windward , the odour of a menagerie was unmistakable . Lions were fired at once during a moonlight march ; others were heard both day and night ...
... skin , which they converted into excellent sandals . For days afterwards , as they passed to windward , the odour of a menagerie was unmistakable . Lions were fired at once during a moonlight march ; others were heard both day and night ...
Side 35
... skins by the common pariah dog in Uzaramo , but the natives . do not eat them . Squirrels occasionally cracked nuts on the forest - trees : they were of the usual size and beauty , most difficult to " twig , " and having a white ...
... skins by the common pariah dog in Uzaramo , but the natives . do not eat them . Squirrels occasionally cracked nuts on the forest - trees : they were of the usual size and beauty , most difficult to " twig , " and having a white ...
Side 36
... skin between the two tusks as broad as it is between the eyes . The mane is immense , but behind it there is little or no hair ; however , nothing looks prettier or more like a race of Arab horses than a herd in full flight going across ...
... skin between the two tusks as broad as it is between the eyes . The mane is immense , but behind it there is little or no hair ; however , nothing looks prettier or more like a race of Arab horses than a herd in full flight going across ...
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