A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 88
Side 13
... skins , bags of bone ; and the outer one of all such a skeleton that I listened to ascertain whether he breathed . Certainly the mares looked more comfortable when picketed in the morning in the open yard upon sand , and tied loosely by ...
... skins , bags of bone ; and the outer one of all such a skeleton that I listened to ascertain whether he breathed . Certainly the mares looked more comfortable when picketed in the morning in the open yard upon sand , and tied loosely by ...
Side 24
... skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses . Generally there was an argument to settle how long the march should continue ; and many were the excuses found for a ...
... skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses . Generally there was an argument to settle how long the march should continue ; and many were the excuses found for a ...
Side 34
... skin , which they converted into excellent sandals . For days afterwards , as they passed to windward , the odour of a menagerie was unmistakable . Lions were fired at once during a moonlight march ; others were heard both day and night ...
... skin , which they converted into excellent sandals . For days afterwards , as they passed to windward , the odour of a menagerie was unmistakable . Lions were fired at once during a moonlight march ; others were heard both day and night ...
Side 35
... skins by the common pariah dog in Uzaramo , but the natives do not eat them . Squirrels occasionally cracked nuts on the forest - trees : they were of the usual size and beauty , most difficult to " twig , " and having a white ...
... skins by the common pariah dog in Uzaramo , but the natives do not eat them . Squirrels occasionally cracked nuts on the forest - trees : they were of the usual size and beauty , most difficult to " twig , " and having a white ...
Side 36
... skin between the two tusks as broad as it is between the eyes . The mane is immense , but behind it there is little or no hair ; however , nothing looks prettier or more like a race of Arab horses than a herd in full flight going across ...
... skin between the two tusks as broad as it is between the eyes . The mane is immense , but behind it there is little or no hair ; however , nothing looks prettier or more like a race of Arab horses than a herd in full flight going across ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
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 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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