A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 56
... hundred dollars and a beautifully chased gold watch made to order by M'Cabe . We experienced one great privation here , never receiving letters from home ; but , odd enough , those despatched by us reached their destination . CHAPTER V ...
... hundred dollars and a beautifully chased gold watch made to order by M'Cabe . We experienced one great privation here , never receiving letters from home ; but , odd enough , those despatched by us reached their destination . CHAPTER V ...
Side 68
... hundreds of wire rings are massed round his ankles . He was asked to be seated on one of our iron stools , but looked at first frightened , and did not open his mouth . An old man spoke for him , and a crowd of thirty fol- lowers ...
... hundreds of wire rings are massed round his ankles . He was asked to be seated on one of our iron stools , but looked at first frightened , and did not open his mouth . An old man spoke for him , and a crowd of thirty fol- lowers ...
Side 77
... hundred we found a most difficult task : they are as fickle as the wind . A wave of a flag will attract them , while one mis- placed expression will send them away discontented . They higgle pertinaciously about their hire ; and after ...
... hundred we found a most difficult task : they are as fickle as the wind . A wave of a flag will attract them , while one mis- placed expression will send them away discontented . They higgle pertinaciously about their hire ; and after ...
Side 78
... hundred and nine days . It is as follows : - " 26th May . - Speke keeps the larder well filled . Last night , three guinea - fowl and a large tree - goose . I went early amongst the Watusi ; handsome people , beautiful rounded small ...
... hundred and nine days . It is as follows : - " 26th May . - Speke keeps the larder well filled . Last night , three guinea - fowl and a large tree - goose . I went early amongst the Watusi ; handsome people , beautiful rounded small ...
Side 79
... drank first ( through a straw ) , and then I had some , and very good it was . Then he drank again , and I drank again , laughing heartily . People in hundreds came . I went to sleep , though 80 PEOPLE OF UKUNI . drums beat all day in.
... drank first ( through a straw ) , and then I had some , and very good it was . Then he drank again , and I drank again , laughing heartily . People in hundreds came . I went to sleep , though 80 PEOPLE OF UKUNI . drums beat all day in.
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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