A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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... head of the bay , passing richly - foliaged islands in their course . Hence , forty miles of rail , through swamp and forest , brought us to the foot of mountains , which we ascended in omnibuses drawn by four mules , passing on the way ...
... head of the bay , passing richly - foliaged islands in their course . Hence , forty miles of rail , through swamp and forest , brought us to the foot of mountains , which we ascended in omnibuses drawn by four mules , passing on the way ...
Side 8
... head - dress was a black Highland bonnet with crest . On the 10th of August a slave - vessel , Sunny South or Manuella , was captured with upwards of 500 slaves on board , 75 of whom were women . The scene they presented of nakedness ...
... head - dress was a black Highland bonnet with crest . On the 10th of August a slave - vessel , Sunny South or Manuella , was captured with upwards of 500 slaves on board , 75 of whom were women . The scene they presented of nakedness ...
Side 13
... head , with nose - bags full of grain ; and the picture around them of domestic animals had much the appearance of a home farmyard . The climate of Zanzibar is very relaxing , owing to the humidity of the air , a great amount of rain ...
... head , with nose - bags full of grain ; and the picture around them of domestic animals had much the appearance of a home farmyard . The climate of Zanzibar is very relaxing , owing to the humidity of the air , a great amount of rain ...
Side 19
... head , when , with one stroke , the back of his neck was cut to the vertebræ ; he fell forward , and lay breathing steadily , with his right cheek in his own blood , without a sound or struggle . The executioner , after wiping his sword ...
... head , when , with one stroke , the back of his neck was cut to the vertebræ ; he fell forward , and lay breathing steadily , with his right cheek in his own blood , without a sound or struggle . The executioner , after wiping his sword ...
Side 24
... head - dress of ostrich plumes stuck through a strip of scarlet flannel , seeing all ready , led the caravan in single file with great dignity during the march . The pace was never more than three and a half miles per hour . When the ...
... head - dress of ostrich plumes stuck through a strip of scarlet flannel , seeing all ready , led the caravan in single file with great dignity during the march . The pace was never more than three and a half miles per hour . When the ...
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