A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 26
... covered ourselves with from one to five thin blankets , according to the elevation . During the last week of November , previous to the regular rains , our camp at Ugogo suffered from heavy north and west gusts of wind , which set in at ...
... covered ourselves with from one to five thin blankets , according to the elevation . During the last week of November , previous to the regular rains , our camp at Ugogo suffered from heavy north and west gusts of wind , which set in at ...
Side 27
... covering the knuckle . Rahan shrank at first from it , crying out most lustily , and abusing us and Baraka for having brought this misfortune upon him . him . At last he said , " Go on : do it . " When half through , he pulled away his ...
... covering the knuckle . Rahan shrank at first from it , crying out most lustily , and abusing us and Baraka for having brought this misfortune upon him . him . At last he said , " Go on : do it . " When half through , he pulled away his ...
Side 30
... covered up . Manure is seldom used ; six months ' fallow would seem to be its substitute . Fields close to villages occasionally get manure , or red clay heaps are spread over the dry , drifting sand - soil of Ugogo . We had no ...
... covered up . Manure is seldom used ; six months ' fallow would seem to be its substitute . Fields close to villages occasionally get manure , or red clay heaps are spread over the dry , drifting sand - soil of Ugogo . We had no ...
Side 37
... covered over . The nooses were formed of an elastic bough , stripped of its branches , with the noose hung perpendicularly , neatly concealed and placed in an antelope - frequented track . Diminutive traps were 38 FISH - CATCHING . set ...
... covered over . The nooses were formed of an elastic bough , stripped of its branches , with the noose hung perpendicularly , neatly concealed and placed in an antelope - frequented track . Diminutive traps were 38 FISH - CATCHING . set ...
Side 38
... covered with wool , elongated with bark fibre into hanks , and their bodies smeared with an oily pomade of red clay , which soon soils their only covering a cloth wrapped round the loins . The dress of the women is slightly longer , but ...
... covered with wool , elongated with bark fibre into hanks , and their bodies smeared with an oily pomade of red clay , which soon soils their only covering a cloth wrapped round the loins . The dress of the women is slightly longer , but ...
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A Walk Across Africa Or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal Jam. Aug Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
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African amongst animals antelope Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful birds boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe carried cattle chief cloth colour covered cowries dressed drums feet four fowls Frij goat Gondokoro gourd grain grass guns hair hands handsome head heard hills hippopotamus horns hour houses Indian ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves loads looked M'nanagee M'tessa Manua Mariboo miles milk Moossah morning musquitoes natives neck never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears Speke stick stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyanyembe Unyoro Usui Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild wind women yards Zanzibar