A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 18
... followed by a noisy drummer , the prisoners , and mob , we pushed on for a dozen yards , and stopped in an open space where some cows were lying . A twig of grass pinioned each man , and they were made to sit on the ground , EXECUTION ...
... followed by a noisy drummer , the prisoners , and mob , we pushed on for a dozen yards , and stopped in an open space where some cows were lying . A twig of grass pinioned each man , and they were made to sit on the ground , EXECUTION ...
Side 31
... followed the Wagogo . Food was not abundant . As it was the dry season , we had to trust to chance and our rifles . One night our entire dinner consisted of two ears of Indian corn , eaten with salt ; nothing besides , neither bread nor ...
... followed the Wagogo . Food was not abundant . As it was the dry season , we had to trust to chance and our rifles . One night our entire dinner consisted of two ears of Indian corn , eaten with salt ; nothing besides , neither bread nor ...
Side 44
... followed , and we were lodged once more under a hospitable roof . The country is surrounded by low bare hills , which every morning till eight or nine were obscured by an unhealthy coloured mist , filling the wide valley where we lay ...
... followed , and we were lodged once more under a hospitable roof . The country is surrounded by low bare hills , which every morning till eight or nine were obscured by an unhealthy coloured mist , filling the wide valley where we lay ...
Side 46
... followed by a few dry days , and a temperature of 82 ° . This hot weather occurred when , at the short twilight , the sun appeared to set in the east , and the whole sky was an arched illumination . On an average we had rain two ...
... followed by a few dry days , and a temperature of 82 ° . This hot weather occurred when , at the short twilight , the sun appeared to set in the east , and the whole sky was an arched illumination . On an average we had rain two ...
Side 96
... followed the lady visitors carrying gourds of pombé , drums beating furiously , shots , sham- fights , & c .; and the sultan would ask me to join in the dance . After a time I was called upon by the strangers , and every book , box ...
... followed the lady visitors carrying gourds of pombé , drums beating furiously , shots , sham- fights , & c .; and the sultan would ask me to join in the dance . After a time I was called upon by the strangers , and every book , box ...
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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