A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 18
... thought it was a rescue , but kept my place ; and it appeared they only wanted to get up to the prisoners , around whom every one laughed heartily at the momentary panic . Here one of the guard with whom I had been conversing laid hold ...
... thought it was a rescue , but kept my place ; and it appeared they only wanted to get up to the prisoners , around whom every one laughed heartily at the momentary panic . Here one of the guard with whom I had been conversing laid hold ...
Side 24
... thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an airy cover- ing of goat - skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses ...
... thought necessary , the rest , a gang of naked , woolly - haired negroes , with only an airy cover- ing of goat - skin in front , would also stop and refresh themselves with pipes , snuff , grain , dancing , and sing- ing choruses ...
Side 27
... thought from the first that I should have the operation to perform , and Speke requested me to do it . I overcame the feel- ing of reluctance , and asked for a knife . The Sheikh's razor performed a beautiful flap operation , taken from ...
... thought from the first that I should have the operation to perform , and Speke requested me to do it . I overcame the feel- ing of reluctance , and asked for a knife . The Sheikh's razor performed a beautiful flap operation , taken from ...
Side 30
... thoughts perhaps running on displays of fruit in shop- windows , ices , or lapping water in a stream , they run out , like good fellows , to meet you with a drink . Let it be hot , bitter , or black as ditch - water , thirst is allayed ...
... thoughts perhaps running on displays of fruit in shop- windows , ices , or lapping water in a stream , they run out , like good fellows , to meet you with a drink . Let it be hot , bitter , or black as ditch - water , thirst is allayed ...
Side 34
... thought the latter small in proportion to the size of the animal . On asking for the head to be brought for preservation , I found that the Wezee porters had cut the ears off , and were already frizzling them for dinner . The hairs of ...
... thought the latter small in proportion to the size of the animal . On asking for the head to be brought for preservation , I found that the Wezee porters had cut the ears off , and were already frizzling them for dinner . The hairs of ...
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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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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