A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 12
... Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords , & c . , are all paraded up and down , and their prices shouted out . The market for human beings is a triangular space surrounded by rickety huts , thatched with cocoa - nut leaves ; and ...
... Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , swords , & c . , are all paraded up and down , and their prices shouted out . The market for human beings is a triangular space surrounded by rickety huts , thatched with cocoa - nut leaves ; and ...
Side 16
... Goats , when cas- trated and stall - fed , become very heavy , and their meat is considered a great delicacy by the Arabs . Trade has considerably increased at Zanzibar . The shipping consists chiefly of large native craft - thirty to ...
... Goats , when cas- trated and stall - fed , become very heavy , and their meat is considered a great delicacy by the Arabs . Trade has considerably increased at Zanzibar . The shipping consists chiefly of large native craft - thirty to ...
Side 23
... goats stolen ; and Our native commandant , the Sheikh , hors de combat . The daily stages have been so well and so fully described by Captain Speke that I shall not dwell upon them , but merely mention a few incidents de- scriptive of ...
... goats stolen ; and Our native commandant , the Sheikh , hors de combat . The daily stages have been so well and so fully described by Captain Speke that I shall not dwell upon them , but merely mention a few incidents de- scriptive of ...
Side 24
... goat - skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses . Generally there was an argument to settle how long the march should continue ; and many were the excuses found ...
... goat - skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses . Generally there was an argument to settle how long the march should continue ; and many were the excuses found ...
Side 31
... goats were occasionally brought into camp to be bartered for cloth , tobacco , or 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 ...
... goats were occasionally brought into camp to be bartered for cloth , tobacco , or 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 ...
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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