A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 12
... rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , paraded up and down , and their The market for human beings is 66 swords , & c ...
... rock , and tastes unpleasantly warm . Men in the marketplace have an odd way of hawking about their goods for sale . Goats , carved doors , beds , knives , paraded up and down , and their The market for human beings is 66 swords , & c ...
Side 26
... rocks on the surface or from outcropping rock ; and there was a pleasant confiding air of homeliness and repose in the people , so different from those worth- less races we had found such trouble in passing through . The climate , with ...
... rocks on the surface or from outcropping rock ; and there was a pleasant confiding air of homeliness and repose in the people , so different from those worth- less races we had found such trouble in passing through . The climate , with ...
Side 29
... rock , the water nitrous , and nearly the price of beer . Sometimes , when there was no water for thirty miles , a small quantity would be carried in gourds , where , from the shaking and heat , 30 CULTIVATION OF THE GROUND . it soon ...
... rock , the water nitrous , and nearly the price of beer . Sometimes , when there was no water for thirty miles , a small quantity would be carried in gourds , where , from the shaking and heat , 30 CULTIVATION OF THE GROUND . it soon ...
Side 35
... rock , that reminded us of the goorul or chamois of the Himalayas . Their fore - feet hoofs are immensely long in the heel , enabling them to cling to the rocks . The hirax , or coney , basking on the rocks , is also very interesting ...
... rock , that reminded us of the goorul or chamois of the Himalayas . Their fore - feet hoofs are immensely long in the heel , enabling them to cling to the rocks . The hirax , or coney , basking on the rocks , is also very interesting ...
Side 36
... rocks cost us twelve cloths , as I was told that I had encroached on sacred ground . Rats , bugs , and musquitoes seldom gave us trouble . During rain , frogs and crickets were deafening . In- sects and white ants ( eaten by natives ) ...
... rocks cost us twelve cloths , as I was told that I had encroached on sacred ground . Rats , bugs , and musquitoes seldom gave us trouble . During rain , frogs and crickets were deafening . In- sects and white ants ( eaten by natives ) ...
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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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