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 15
... wait for the three years ' furlough , granted to Indian officers after ten years ' service , before he would be able to carry his plan into execution ; and then he proposed , by landing on the east coast of Africa , to strike the Nile ...
... wait for the three years ' furlough , granted to Indian officers after ten years ' service , before he would be able to carry his plan into execution ; and then he proposed , by landing on the east coast of Africa , to strike the Nile ...
Side 21
... wait till the breaking - up of the Berbera fair , and travel by the ordinary caravan route through the Ugahden country to the Webbe Shebéli , and on to Gananeh , and then to proceed by any favourable opportunity to the Zanzibar coast ...
... wait till the breaking - up of the Berbera fair , and travel by the ordinary caravan route through the Ugahden country to the Webbe Shebéli , and on to Gananeh , and then to proceed by any favourable opportunity to the Zanzibar coast ...
Side 23
... waiting eleven days for an inter- view with the sultan , Gerad Mohamed Ali , until which no business could be done , Speke took walks about the plains , shooting a new variety of gazelle , called Deza by the So- mali , and some of ...
... waiting eleven days for an inter- view with the sultan , Gerad Mohamed Ali , until which no business could be done , Speke took walks about the plains , shooting a new variety of gazelle , called Deza by the So- mali , and some of ...
Side 27
... wait- ing at this place Speke found a new species of lizard , called Tiloqua Burtoni , after the commander of the ex- pedition ; and a leopard was brought into the camp which the Somali had destroyed with sticks and stones in a cave ...
... wait- ing at this place Speke found a new species of lizard , called Tiloqua Burtoni , after the commander of the ex- pedition ; and a leopard was brought into the camp which the Somali had destroyed with sticks and stones in a cave ...
Side 34
... wait . The other method is to ride them down on their slow ponies , taking advantage of the habit fleet animals have of heading their pursuers . By riding at the leading gazelle they make up for the difference in speed by the shorter ...
... wait . The other method is to ride them down on their slow ponies , taking advantage of the habit fleet animals have of heading their pursuers . By riding at the leading gazelle they make up for the difference in speed by the shorter ...
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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 |
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