A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side xii
... winds , & c . - Blind musicians - Food of the natives - Women at harvest - Coinage and manufactures - Flora of Ukuni - Domestic and wild animals - Sin- gular ceremony with a dead lion - Attack of ants - Sultan and Sul- tana of Ukuni ...
... winds , & c . - Blind musicians - Food of the natives - Women at harvest - Coinage and manufactures - Flora of Ukuni - Domestic and wild animals - Sin- gular ceremony with a dead lion - Attack of ants - Sultan and Sul- tana of Ukuni ...
Side xv
... , or Nyamæra ; a heartebeest antelope . Inteh ; the name for a cow at Karague . Jowari ; a grain , vide sorghum . Kousee ; the name given at Zanzibar to the south - east trade - winds . xvi EXPLANATION OF NAMES AND TERMS . Kivro ; a.
... , or Nyamæra ; a heartebeest antelope . Inteh ; the name for a cow at Karague . Jowari ; a grain , vide sorghum . Kousee ; the name given at Zanzibar to the south - east trade - winds . xvi EXPLANATION OF NAMES AND TERMS . Kivro ; a.
Side 20
... wind was ahead ; our crew , a rough set of African lads ; sandbanks were about ; and after splitting our maintop - sail , and many oaths ( strange to say , in English ) from the native commander , trying to put things to rights , we put ...
... wind was ahead ; our crew , a rough set of African lads ; sandbanks were about ; and after splitting our maintop - sail , and many oaths ( strange to say , in English ) from the native commander , trying to put things to rights , we put ...
Side 26
... wind behind us on the march , was cooler and less creative of thirst than that of India . Our dress was an English summer one ; no turbans were necessary ; the evenings were delightfully cool ; the sun seldom set in a haze , and one ...
... wind behind us on the march , was cooler and less creative of thirst than that of India . Our dress was an English summer one ; no turbans were necessary ; the evenings were delightfully cool ; the sun seldom set in a haze , and one ...
Side 45
... winds were the E. , N.E. , and S.E. , but the coldest were the west- erly after rain . The mornings were foggy , the grass dripped with the night - dew , which interfered with 46 CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE . Speke's observation of the stars.
... winds were the E. , N.E. , and S.E. , but the coldest were the west- erly after rain . The mornings were foggy , the grass dripped with the night - dew , which interfered with 46 CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE . Speke's observation of the stars.
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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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