A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side viii
... give , relatively , a corre- sponding valuation to each succeeding country , in the order in which you passed through them - I mean , as regards the products and the capabilities of the countries , the density of their populations , and ...
... give , relatively , a corre- sponding valuation to each succeeding country , in the order in which you passed through them - I mean , as regards the products and the capabilities of the countries , the density of their populations , and ...
Side 18
... give the order , and I informed Colonel Rigby of the circumstance . He at once saw through the timidity of the Sultan , and said , as the sentence had been passed weeks ago , he could give no orders about it . Returning to the place of ...
... give the order , and I informed Colonel Rigby of the circumstance . He at once saw through the timidity of the Sultan , and said , as the sentence had been passed weeks ago , he could give no orders about it . Returning to the place of ...
Side 40
... give travellers no aid , and will pounce upon stray men . They are polygamists ; their only faith is belief in the " black art ; " and though residing on the borders of civilisation , they have no curiosity or ambition . II . The ...
... give travellers no aid , and will pounce upon stray men . They are polygamists ; their only faith is belief in the " black art ; " and though residing on the borders of civilisation , they have no curiosity or ambition . II . The ...
Side 48
... give the reader some idea of our life here . Moossah , an Indian in whose house we resided , was a fine benevolent old man , with an establishment of 300 native men and women round him . His abode had , three years ago , taken two ...
... give the reader some idea of our life here . Moossah , an Indian in whose house we resided , was a fine benevolent old man , with an establishment of 300 native men and women round him . His abode had , three years ago , taken two ...
Side 49
... give you the gossip at any hour you might sit by him on his carpet . To us it seemed strange that he never stopped talking when prayers from the Koran were being read to him by " Bookeen , " or Madagascar man . Perhaps he had little ...
... give you the gossip at any hour you might sit by him on his carpet . To us it seemed strange that he never stopped talking when prayers from the Koran were being read to him by " Bookeen , " or Madagascar man . Perhaps he had little ...
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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