A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 23
... nor conveyances of any kind in the country , our whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 60 lb. each , without lock or key , and the porters paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 24 66 99 ( ( CRIES OF BOMAH AND POSHO.
... nor conveyances of any kind in the country , our whole kit was put into loads of 50 and 60 lb. each , without lock or key , and the porters paraded up and down with them a whole day trying 24 66 99 ( ( CRIES OF BOMAH AND POSHO.
Side 24
... load for as many minutes as he thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an ... loads stacked amidst cries of " Bomah ! " or ring - fence , and " Posho ! " or food , the first concern with every ...
... load for as many minutes as he thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an ... loads stacked amidst cries of " Bomah ! " or ring - fence , and " Posho ! " or food , the first concern with every ...
Side 57
... 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.
... 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 63
... load of wood cost but one string of ordinary beads . In short , our men lived luxuriously on their daily allowance of one string of beads per man . The people preferred keeping a few milk - cows , being more productive than oxen , which ...
... load of wood cost but one string of ordinary beads . In short , our men lived luxuriously on their daily allowance of one string of beads per man . The people preferred keeping a few milk - cows , being more productive than oxen , which ...
Side 64
... load of four large black geese , weighing 9 lb. each , having curious horny spurs to their shoulders , and taking to trees on being wounded . Farther south I had seen the same kind flapping their wings and pluming themselves between ...
... load of four large black geese , weighing 9 lb. each , having curious horny spurs to their shoulders , and taking to trees on being wounded . Farther south I had seen the same kind flapping their wings and pluming themselves between ...
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A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
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African amongst animals antelope Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful birds boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries Crown Octavo dressed drums Edition feet Foolscap four fowls Frij goat Gondokoro gourd grain grass guns hair hands handsome head heard hills hippopotamus horns houses Indian ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king Kitangule lake leaves loads looking M'nanagee M'tessa Manua miles Moossah morning musquitoes natives neck never night Nile Octavo party placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees trees tusk Uganda Unyamuezi Unyanyembe Unyoro Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Watuta Wezee White Nile wild women wood yards Zanzibar