A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 17
... present , going to the execution with the " sur- rung " or boatswain of the British Consulate , who cleared the way for me to get near the two men . They squatted outside the fort wall with perfect composure , naked from head to foot ...
... present , going to the execution with the " sur- rung " or boatswain of the British Consulate , who cleared the way for me to get near the two men . They squatted outside the fort wall with perfect composure , naked from head to foot ...
Side 19
... present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . Their accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness the bodies : they were to 20 CROSS TO ...
... present those murderers would have escaped punishment , owing to the effeminacy and timidity of the Sultan of Zanzibar . Their accomplices , each with a cleft log on his neck , were taken to witness the bodies : they were to 20 CROSS TO ...
Side 40
... present wardrobe was increased , it consisting only of what he then wore - a rag round his loins . III . The Wagogo . - We did not enter their oblong , walled villages , but I have a distinct and vivid recol- lection of the people ...
... present wardrobe was increased , it consisting only of what he then wore - a rag round his loins . III . The Wagogo . - We did not enter their oblong , walled villages , but I have a distinct and vivid recol- lection of the people ...
Side 41
... making his observations . Like all Africans , if they gave us any information a present had to follow . The settlement of the tax was a most harassing affair . The sultan , after receiving all 42 THE WANYAMUEZI . he had demanded , said the.
... making his observations . Like all Africans , if they gave us any information a present had to follow . The settlement of the tax was a most harassing affair . The sultan , after receiving all 42 THE WANYAMUEZI . he had demanded , said the.
Side 58
... present chapter . The whole route was fine ; never once did we lose sight of trees , wooded hills , or valleys , while water was everywhere abundant . The forest was what might be called " Donkey or Zebra forest " -bare - poled trees ...
... present chapter . The whole route was fine ; never once did we lose sight of trees , wooded hills , or valleys , while water was everywhere abundant . The forest was what might be called " Donkey or Zebra forest " -bare - poled trees ...
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A Walk Across Africa Or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal Jam. Aug Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
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