A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 4
... beautiful bays pulled up at the Admiral's house , Simon's Bay , where we then were , conveying these ten volunteers , who sat in the open four - wheeled vans looking very smart with their red caps , much to the envy of some Forte ...
... beautiful bays pulled up at the Admiral's house , Simon's Bay , where we then were , conveying these ten volunteers , who sat in the open four - wheeled vans looking very smart with their red caps , much to the envy of some Forte ...
Side 14
... beautiful clove or mango groves ; enjoy the refreshing milk from the cocoa - nut ; observe the industry in the fields , the snug country- houses of the Arabs ; examine the " diggings " for copal ; look at the men washing the elephant ...
... beautiful clove or mango groves ; enjoy the refreshing milk from the cocoa - nut ; observe the industry in the fields , the snug country- houses of the Arabs ; examine the " diggings " for copal ; look at the men washing the elephant ...
Side 27
... beautiful flap operation , taken from the inside of the hand , and 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 . At last he said ...
... beautiful flap operation , taken from the inside of the hand , and 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 . At last he said ...
Side 33
... beautiful sight ; they can be stalked very easily , and , unless made aware of danger by antelopes feeding with them , they will turn round and stare at you , some even ad- vancing a few paces , like the wild horse of Thibet . When I ...
... beautiful sight ; they can be stalked very easily , and , unless made aware of danger by antelopes feeding with them , they will turn round and stare at you , some even ad- vancing a few paces , like the wild horse of Thibet . When I ...
Side 34
... beautiful in the field . Fearfully shy , they look at you for an instant only , then scamper off , lashing about their switching long tails ; and after giving a short spurt , they turn round again , take another furtive glance , and ...
... beautiful in the field . Fearfully shy , they look at you for an instant only , then scamper off , lashing about their switching long tails ; and after giving a short spurt , they turn round again , take another furtive glance , and ...
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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