Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the Nile. Comp. from the Memoirs of Captains Speke and GrantW. Blackwood and Sons, 1868 - 342 sider |
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Side 18
... the country , but move about with their flocks and herds wherever water is to be found , erecting temporary huts covered with grass mats , or throwing up loose stone walls CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY . 19 for shelter , like.
... the country , but move about with their flocks and herds wherever water is to be found , erecting temporary huts covered with grass mats , or throwing up loose stone walls CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY . 19 for shelter , like.
Side 19
... huts with square mat walls supported by sticks , near which the chief of the place generally possesses a kind of stone box , which is used as a fort or store . It is usually built of blocks of coralline , cemented with mortar of the ...
... huts with square mat walls supported by sticks , near which the chief of the place generally possesses a kind of stone box , which is used as a fort or store . It is usually built of blocks of coralline , cemented with mortar of the ...
Side 41
... huts grouped together close to the shore . The plain , about half a mile broad , consisted of a sandy - brown soil almost bare of vegetation . The hills in the background were small , dull , and brown , like those seen in going down the ...
... huts grouped together close to the shore . The plain , about half a mile broad , consisted of a sandy - brown soil almost bare of vegetation . The hills in the background were small , dull , and brown , like those seen in going down the ...
Side 42
... huts to carry on their bartering trade . At sunrise on the morning of the 7th of April a very in- teresting scene took place . The great annual Harar cara- van arrived . It was made up of a number of small cara- vans which had joined ...
... huts to carry on their bartering trade . At sunrise on the morning of the 7th of April a very in- teresting scene took place . The great annual Harar cara- van arrived . It was made up of a number of small cara- vans which had joined ...
Side 50
... huts of Berbera , he saw some female figures beckoning to him . In desperation he hobbled towards them , his right leg being drawn up nearly double , and so weak that it would only support the weight of his body for an instant at a time ...
... huts of Berbera , he saw some female figures beckoning to him . In desperation he hobbled towards them , his right leg being drawn up nearly double , and so weak that it would only support the weight of his body for an instant at a time ...
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Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the ... George Carless Swayne,John Hanning Speke Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the ... George Carless Swayne,John Hanning Speke Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Lake Victoria: A Narrative of Explorations in Search of the Source of the Nile George Carless Swayne Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2015 |
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antelope appeared Arabs arms arrived beads beautiful Beluches Berbera birds boats Bombay brought Budja buffaloes called camp canoe caravan cattle chief cloth coast colour court covered cows Crown 8vo Dagara dressed drums Edition elephants escort expedition Fcap feet Gani gave goats Gondokoro grass hands hartebeest head heard hills hippopotami horn huts journey Kamrasi Karagué Karuma Falls Kazé Kidi killed king of Uganda king's Kingani Kitangulé lake land looked Manua mbugu miles Mtésa natives night Nile officers palace party passed Petherick plantain pombé porters present rhinoceros river round royal Rumanika Seedis seemed seen sent shot side skin Somali spears Speke Speke and Grant sultan Suwarora tion took trees Uganda Ugogo Ujiji Unyamuézi Unyanyembé Unyoro Usui valley Victoria Nyanza village vols Waganda Wahuma Wakungu walked Wanguana Wanyoro Watusi white rhinoceros women wore Zanzibar
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