A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 5
... never had pillow - slips on board , and he , thinking that I ought to possess them , found one for me the first night in the shape of my empty clothes - bag - a feat most creditable to his ingenuity and sense of cleanliness . On the ...
... never had pillow - slips on board , and he , thinking that I ought to possess them , found one for me the first night in the shape of my empty clothes - bag - a feat most creditable to his ingenuity and sense of cleanliness . On the ...
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... never moved nor spoke . The same horrible scene was again enacted , but with a different result ; the man jerked upwards from his squatting position , and fell back on his left side , with no sound nor after - struggle . Both appeared ...
... never moved nor spoke . The same horrible scene was again enacted , but with a different result ; the man jerked upwards from his squatting position , and fell back on his left side , with no sound nor after - struggle . Both appeared ...
Side 24
... never more than three and a half miles per hour . When the captain put down his load for as many minutes as he thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an airy cover- ing of goat - skin in ...
... never more than three and a half miles per hour . When the captain put down his load for as many minutes as he thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an airy cover- ing of goat - skin in ...
Side 26
... never slept in our clothes , but covered ourselves with from one to five thin blankets , according to the elevation . During the last week of November , previous to the regular rains , our camp at Ugogo suffered from heavy north and ...
... never slept in our clothes , but covered ourselves with from one to five thin blankets , according to the elevation . During the last week of November , previous to the regular rains , our camp at Ugogo suffered from heavy north and ...
Side 28
... never did . The donkeys had much more spirit than the mules . We lost only three out of five dur- ing the march , though overladen with bundles , pots , and kettles . The wild zebra and donkeys mingled and fraternised by distant neighs ...
... never did . The donkeys had much more spirit than the mules . We lost only three out of five dur- ing the march , though overladen with bundles , pots , and kettles . The wild zebra and donkeys mingled and fraternised by distant neighs ...
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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