A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 12
... carried fully a mile from a hot spring , which bubbles from under rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men 66 in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords ...
... carried fully a mile from a hot spring , which bubbles from under rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men 66 in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords ...
Side 15
... carry but a stick over their shoulder with a cut of stale fish hanging from it ; and one wonders at the extreme poverty of the people in the midst of such abundance . Besides the above products , cloves , cotton , bajra , sor- ghum ...
... carry but a stick over their shoulder with a cut of stale fish hanging from it ; and one wonders at the extreme poverty of the people in the midst of such abundance . Besides the above products , cloves , cotton , bajra , sor- ghum ...
Side 19
... carried out , and that had I not been present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . Their accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness ...
... carried out , and that had I not been present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . Their accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness ...
Side 23
... carrying ammunition . Five donkeys to carry the sick . Twenty - five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages , and we had the under - mentioned casualties during the journey : Private Peters dead ; Five other privates ...
... carrying ammunition . Five donkeys to carry the sick . Twenty - five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the first thirteen stages , and we had the under - mentioned casualties during the journey : Private Peters dead ; Five other privates ...
Side 29
... carried in a blanket , four Tots with a corner each . The corporal , Speke , and myself formed the procession , the corporal carrying a hatchet and two sword - bayonets to extend the grave if necessary . Found only a grave one foot deep ...
... carried in a blanket , four Tots with a corner each . The corporal , Speke , and myself formed the procession , the corporal carrying a hatchet and two sword - bayonets to extend the grave if necessary . Found only a grave one foot deep ...
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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