A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 38
... spears and killed , and are eaten by all ; while the tendons are made into bow- strings , the horns used as charms , and the skins rudely dressed for wear . Fish are rarely met with . On the coast , women standing in a circle up to ...
... spears and killed , and are eaten by all ; while the tendons are made into bow- strings , the horns used as charms , and the skins rudely dressed for wear . Fish are rarely met with . On the coast , women standing in a circle up to ...
Side 39
... spear in hand , he would join a party of women going to draw water , pitcher on head , and escort them lest any of our camp should fall upon , steal , or seduce them away . A very pretty girl and her beau were coaxed to sit for their ...
... spear in hand , he would join a party of women going to draw water , pitcher on head , and escort them lest any of our camp should fall upon , steal , or seduce them away . A very pretty girl and her beau were coaxed to sit for their ...
Side 41
... spears , knobsticks , and oblong shields of leather ; dress generally a small loin - cloth . With a gourd cup they drew water from their wells and filled it into earthen " gurahs , " similar to those in India . Women carried their ...
... spears , knobsticks , and oblong shields of leather ; dress generally a small loin - cloth . With a gourd cup they drew water from their wells and filled it into earthen " gurahs , " similar to those in India . Women carried their ...
Side 48
... spears . They had found him stealing , and offered him for sale . No one would pur- chase him , and he was taken to the sultan , who would , as Moossah said , either spear him , keep him as a slave , or allow him to be sold . Slaves ...
... spears . They had found him stealing , and offered him for sale . No one would pur- chase him , and he was taken to the sultan , who would , as Moossah said , either spear him , keep him as a slave , or allow him to be sold . Slaves ...
Side 69
... spears , bows and arrows , and leather shields shaped like the figure 8. Boys in the villages were fond of practising war , by pelting each other with Indian - corn stumps , using leather shields of defence . We had daily visits from ...
... spears , bows and arrows , and leather shields shaped like the figure 8. Boys in the villages were fond of practising war , by pelting each other with Indian - corn stumps , using leather shields of defence . We had daily visits from ...
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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