A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 16
... horn of a Highland ram , once and a half round . As the tusk increases in size , a corresponding rise takes place in its value . per lb. Tortoise - shell fetched 15s . per lb .; for hippopotamus ivory there was then no demand in Europe ...
... horn of a Highland ram , once and a half round . As the tusk increases in size , a corresponding rise takes place in its value . per lb. Tortoise - shell fetched 15s . per lb .; for hippopotamus ivory there was then no demand in Europe ...
Side 29
... horns , drums , & c . " At our first camping - ground by the coast there was not a drop of water to be seen - a sad calamity ! But Bombay , an old traveller , and always ready - witted , relieved the minds of the Tots by telling them ...
... horns , drums , & c . " At our first camping - ground by the coast there was not a drop of water to be seen - a sad calamity ! But Bombay , an old traveller , and always ready - witted , relieved the minds of the Tots by telling them ...
Side 31
... horns . The goats were of the ordinary short - haired sort , never used as milkers ; and sheep , though rarely seen , were of the " doomba " or fatty - tailed variety , the size of a year - old Leicester , costing nine yards cotton ...
... horns . The goats were of the ordinary short - haired sort , never used as milkers ; and sheep , though rarely seen , were of the " doomba " or fatty - tailed variety , the size of a year - old Leicester , costing nine yards cotton ...
Side 38
... 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 their waists in the sea use their cloths as nets , and encircle small fish . Stake- nets in 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 their waists in the sea use their cloths as nets , and encircle small fish . Stake- nets in the ...
Side 45
... horn to cuts made in the temple of the patient , exhausted the air by suction , and with his tongue shut the hole at the end of the horn with the wax . We had only one fatal case . Quinine and applications of blistering tissue behind ...
... horn to cuts made in the temple of the patient , exhausted the air by suction , and with his tongue shut the hole at the end of the horn with the wax . We had only one fatal case . Quinine and applications of blistering tissue behind ...
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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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