A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 29
... tall reed edges we had abundance of water , but mawk- ish . It was a white , muddy , sluggish stream 40 to 50 yards across , with steep clay banks 16 feet above the water , and winding so much that no steamer could make its sharp turns ...
... tall reed edges we had abundance of water , but mawk- ish . It was a white , muddy , sluggish stream 40 to 50 yards across , with steep clay banks 16 feet above the water , and winding so much that no steamer could make its sharp turns ...
Side 37
... tall trees , and in the evening they may be found near cultivations , chas- ing insects or grubbing up sweet potato . We killed one rare species , red round the eyes and on the throat , having a standing - up purple collar of loose skin ...
... tall trees , and in the evening they may be found near cultivations , chas- ing insects or grubbing up sweet potato . We killed one rare species , red round the eyes and on the throat , having a standing - up purple collar of loose skin ...
Side 51
... tall , and generally superior to the Africans , that I took great interest in them . They were Watusi from Karague . There were ten men and women , all with woolly hair - the men leav- ing a crescent of it unshaved . Their gums were ...
... tall , and generally superior to the Africans , that I took great interest in them . They were Watusi from Karague . There were ten men and women , all with woolly hair - the men leav- ing a crescent of it unshaved . Their gums were ...
Side 70
... tall , erect , graceful figures even without crinoline , and with intelligent features . They are looked upon as an inferior tribe to the Watusi ( described at Kazeh ) , though wearing the hair bound up , and having naked arms , & c ...
... tall , erect , graceful figures even without crinoline , and with intelligent features . They are looked upon as an inferior tribe to the Watusi ( described at Kazeh ) , though wearing the hair bound up , and having naked arms , & c ...
Side 96
... tall Watusi men paid me visits ; my umbrella was much fancied by their chief . He offered me his pipe for it ; and , finding this was not enough , he brought me another day an iron THE OLD SULTANA . 97 hoe ! To get rid.
... tall Watusi men paid me visits ; my umbrella was much fancied by their chief . He offered me his pipe for it ; and , finding this was not enough , he brought me another day an iron THE OLD SULTANA . 97 hoe ! To get rid.
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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