A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 57
... Speke in person , who walked 80 miles to induce them to accompany us . Ultimately we moved off by detachments , and accom- plished 90 miles , with 110 men's loads , in 75 days . 58 ROUTE TO MINEENGA . To describe this country and.
... Speke in person , who walked 80 miles to induce them to accompany us . Ultimately we moved off by detachments , and accom- plished 90 miles , with 110 men's loads , in 75 days . 58 ROUTE TO MINEENGA . To describe this country and.
Side 110
... walked back the sixty miles to announce this failure to me . " What has happened ? I thought you were in Karague ! " What was to be done ? Our beads and cloth were running short ; my sultan would not give us a man . Unyanyembe and the ...
... walked back the sixty miles to announce this failure to me . " What has happened ? I thought you were in Karague ! " What was to be done ? Our beads and cloth were running short ; my sultan would not give us a man . Unyanyembe and the ...
Side 114
... walked out- side the village and sat down , feeling sick , sore at heart , and exhausted from the detestable strife , but thankful to God that I had so much command of temper . A servant reported that he and another must sleep that ...
... walked out- side the village and sat down , feeling sick , sore at heart , and exhausted from the detestable strife , but thankful to God that I had so much command of temper . A servant reported that he and another must sleep that ...
Side 115
... walked there and back , 20 miles , by 3 P.M. , and found this much - dreaded tribe had left that morning . " 16th . - Having aroused my camp , a noisy con- versation soon began with some strange armed men , who had been sent by Sultan ...
... walked there and back , 20 miles , by 3 P.M. , and found this much - dreaded tribe had left that morning . " 16th . - Having aroused my camp , a noisy con- versation soon began with some strange armed men , who had been sent by Sultan ...
Side 126
... walked up towards me till I whistled at sixty paces , which was close enough ; but the bul- let from one of the men's rifles only made him put a twist in his tail and trot off proudly over the grassy plain for three miles , tripping ...
... walked up towards me till I whistled at sixty paces , which was close enough ; but the bul- let from one of the men's rifles only made him put a twist in his tail and trot off proudly over the grassy plain for three miles , tripping ...
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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