A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 12
... carried fully a mile from a hot spring , which bubbles from under rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords , & c ...
... carried fully a mile from a hot spring , which bubbles from under rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords , & c ...
Side 15
... carry but a stick over their shoulder with a cut of stale fish hanging from it ; and one wonders at the extreme poverty of the people in the midst of such abundance . Besides the above products , cloves , cotton , bajra , sor- ghum ...
... carry but a stick over their shoulder with a cut of stale fish hanging from it ; and one wonders at the extreme poverty of the people in the midst of such abundance . Besides the above products , cloves , cotton , bajra , sor- ghum ...
Side 19
... carried out , and that had I not been present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . Their accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness ...
... carried out , and that had I not been present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . Their accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness ...
Side 23
... carrying ammunition . Five donkeys to carry the sick . Twenty - five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages , and we had the under - mentioned casualties during the journey : — Private Peters dead ; Five other ...
... carrying ammunition . Five donkeys to carry the sick . Twenty - five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages , and we had the under - mentioned casualties during the journey : — Private Peters dead ; Five other ...
Side 29
... carried in a blanket , four Tots with a corner each . The corporal , Speke , and myself formed the procession , the corporal carrying a hatchet and two sword - bayonets to extend the grave if necessary . Found only a grave one foot deep ...
... carried in a blanket , four Tots with a corner each . The corporal , Speke , and myself formed the procession , the corporal carrying a hatchet and two sword - bayonets to extend the grave if necessary . Found only a grave one foot deep ...
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