A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 7
... placed on their backs , with a swab each as pillow . When the ship was at anchor they were lowered with a rope attached to them , and swam about playfully below the stern of the vessel , coming to the surface for air every thirty ...
... placed on their backs , with a swab each as pillow . When the ship was at anchor they were lowered with a rope attached to them , and swam about playfully below the stern of the vessel , coming to the surface for air every thirty ...
Side 30
... wild , and are eaten considerably . Tomato is not eaten . Tamarind , figs , honey in hollowed logs placed up trees in the forest , rich and good . The chief staff of life is stirabout , CATTLE AND FOOD . 31 made from the sorghum ,
... wild , and are eaten considerably . Tomato is not eaten . Tamarind , figs , honey in hollowed logs placed up trees in the forest , rich and good . The chief staff of life is stirabout , CATTLE AND FOOD . 31 made from the sorghum ,
Side 31
... placed on the tops of wooden boxes as tables ) , went and brought a cold grilled chicken , very small , and awkwardly flattened out . Though our hunger prompted us to accept the offer , we declined with many thanks . But , while sitting ...
... placed on the tops of wooden boxes as tables ) , went and brought a cold grilled chicken , very small , and awkwardly flattened out . Though our hunger prompted us to accept the offer , we declined with many thanks . But , while sitting ...
Side 37
... formed of an elastic bough , stripped of its branches , with the noose hung perpendicularly , neatly concealed and placed in an antelope - frequented track . Diminutive traps were 38 FISH - CATCHING . set for partridge , quail.
... formed of an elastic bough , stripped of its branches , with the noose hung perpendicularly , neatly concealed and placed in an antelope - frequented track . Diminutive traps were 38 FISH - CATCHING . set for partridge , quail.
Side 41
... placed round our tents ; but this only increased their inquisitiveness . When told to go away , and not keep peeping under the canvass of our closed - up tents , they laughed , telling us the ground we pitched upon was theirs , and that ...
... placed round our tents ; but this only increased their inquisitiveness . When told to go away , and not keep peeping under the canvass of our closed - up tents , they laughed , telling us the ground we pitched upon was theirs , and that ...
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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