Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849-1855, Volum 4Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 |
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Side 12
... entering the fertile plains of Negroland , the thermometer in the morning , a little before sunrise , showing only 9 ° Fahr . above the freezing point . The interior of Africa , so far removed from the influence of the sea ( which is ...
... entering the fertile plains of Negroland , the thermometer in the morning , a little before sunrise , showing only 9 ° Fahr . above the freezing point . The interior of Africa , so far removed from the influence of the sea ( which is ...
Side 14
... entered Koyám , with its strag- November 27th . gling villages , its well - cultivated fields , and its extensive forests of middle - sized mimosas , which afford food to the numerous herds of camels constituting the wealth of this ...
... entered Koyám , with its strag- November 27th . gling villages , its well - cultivated fields , and its extensive forests of middle - sized mimosas , which afford food to the numerous herds of camels constituting the wealth of this ...
Side 16
... entering the western one , and the populous place was delivered up to all the horrors accompanying the sacking of a town . What with the pleasant character of the country and the friendly disposition of our host , I should have en ...
... entering the western one , and the populous place was delivered up to all the horrors accompanying the sacking of a town . What with the pleasant character of the country and the friendly disposition of our host , I should have en ...
Side 25
... entered the ruins , I found them to be the haunt of a couple of tall ostriches , the only present possessors of this once animated ground : but on the south - west corner , at some distance from the wall , there was a small hamlet . The ...
... entered the ruins , I found them to be the haunt of a couple of tall ostriches , the only present possessors of this once animated ground : but on the south - west corner , at some distance from the wall , there was a small hamlet . The ...
Side 29
... entered that part of the province of Manga which is governed by Kashélla Belál ; and the difference in the character of this tract from the pro- vince of Koyám , which we had just left behind , was remarkable , the country being ...
... entered that part of the province of Manga which is governed by Kashélla Belál ; and the difference in the character of this tract from the pro- vince of Koyám , which we had just left behind , was remarkable , the country being ...
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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a ..., Volum 4 Heinrich Barth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1858 |
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a ..., Volum 4 Heinrich Barth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1858 |
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a ..., Volum 4 Heinrich Barth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1858 |
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