A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 25
... lived in no greater luxury than the poor , although they had a revenue from fines , taxes , a tusk of every elephant killed or found dead in their province , and the produce of large herds of cattle and of farming . On leaving the coast ...
... lived in no greater luxury than the poor , although they had a revenue from fines , taxes , a tusk of every elephant killed or found dead in their province , and the produce of large herds of cattle and of farming . On leaving the coast ...
Side 28
... lived on what they could themselves pick up , having neither corn nor hay . Here are the notes on one case : " 30th Dec. '60 .- Mule ( the last red one ) swollen all over the body for the last two days ; breathing thickly ; discoloured ...
... lived on what they could themselves pick up , having neither corn nor hay . Here are the notes on one case : " 30th Dec. '60 .- Mule ( the last red one ) swollen all over the body for the last two days ; breathing thickly ; discoloured ...
Side 43
... and inveterately smoking during the march . They would prepare some savoury dish of herbs for their men on getting into camp , where they lived in bell - shaped erections made with boughs of trees . CHAPTER IV . SOJOURN AT KAZEH , LAT . 5.
... and inveterately smoking during the march . They would prepare some savoury dish of herbs for their men on getting into camp , where they lived in bell - shaped erections made with boughs of trees . CHAPTER IV . SOJOURN AT KAZEH , LAT . 5.
Side 63
... lived luxuriously on their daily allowance of one string of beads per man . The people preferred keeping a few milk - cows , being more productive than oxen , which were rarely met with , except one or two fattened up to a large size on ...
... lived luxuriously on their daily allowance of one string of beads per man . The people preferred keeping a few milk - cows , being more productive than oxen , which were rarely met with , except one or two fattened up to a large size on ...
Side 70
... lived like goats inside his tent . We saw five of his women ; one was a Hubshee , or Abyssinian , whose appearance disappointed us . Her mouth was large , and , though fair for a negress , and with distinctly bridged nose , she was a ...
... lived like goats inside his tent . We saw five of his women ; one was a Hubshee , or Abyssinian , whose appearance disappointed us . Her mouth was large , and , though fair for a negress , and with distinctly bridged nose , she was a ...
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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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