A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 16
... beads , rice , cowries , opercula , and goods from all quarters of the world , change hands . The largest single tusk we saw at Zanzibar weighed 165 lb .; length , 8 feet 7 inches ; greatest circumference , 1 foot 11 inches - all of the ...
... beads , rice , cowries , opercula , and goods from all quarters of the world , change hands . The largest single tusk we saw at Zanzibar weighed 165 lb .; length , 8 feet 7 inches ; greatest circumference , 1 foot 11 inches - all of the ...
Side 24
... beads , while we retired to tents seven feet square , which were generally sheltered under a tree , with the kit and natives all round us , a motley crew . If we had that day arrived at the headquarters of a sultan , an officer would ...
... beads , while we retired to tents seven feet square , which were generally sheltered under a tree , with the kit and natives all round us , a motley crew . If we had that day arrived at the headquarters of a sultan , an officer would ...
Side 31
... beads , as there was not a coin- copper , silver , or gold - that they would take in ex- change for their produce . We met with no cattle , except those collected for export at the coast , until we had proceeded twenty marches into the ...
... beads , as there was not a coin- copper , silver , or gold - that they would take in ex- change for their produce . We met with no cattle , except those collected for export at the coast , until we had proceeded twenty marches into the ...
Side 34
... bead - necklaces . It being a thorny acacia country , our men benefited by the giraffe's thick skin , which they converted into excellent sandals . For days afterwards , as they passed to windward , the odour of a menagerie was ...
... bead - necklaces . It being a thorny acacia country , our men benefited by the giraffe's thick skin , which they converted into excellent sandals . For days afterwards , as they passed to windward , the odour of a menagerie was ...
Side 38
... beads , sea- shells , or tin . Their heads are 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 ...
... beads , sea- shells , or tin . Their heads are 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 ...
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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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Africa amongst animals antelope appeared Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful Berber birds Blue Nile boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries Crown Octavo dressed drums Edition Faloro feet four fowls Frij goats Gondokoro grain grass guns hands handsome head heard hills horns houses iron ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves looked M'tessa Madi Manua Mariboo miles morning musquitoes natives never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika sand Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees Turks tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyoro Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild women wood yards Zanzibar