A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 38
... banks . A number of slimy - looking fish , 18 to 20 inches long , had been caught , and were slung by their heads to a cord tied round the waist , sur- rounding the wearer like a Highland kilt . The four native races were as follows ...
... banks . A number of slimy - looking fish , 18 to 20 inches long , had been caught , and were slung by their heads to a cord tied round the waist , sur- rounding the wearer like a Highland kilt . The four native races were as follows ...
Side 58
... banks well wooded and shelv- ing : our men shouldered us across , but there were some rickety canoes made of bark lying on the left bank . The other we crossed at night in two channels running also west , but said to be dry one half of ...
... banks well wooded and shelv- ing : our men shouldered us across , but there were some rickety canoes made of bark lying on the left bank . The other we crossed at night in two channels running also west , but said to be dry one half of ...
Side 167
... banks of the Kitangule , where they had better feeding , and looked more sleek . Some horns were two and three feet long , and eighteen inches round the base . No use seemed to be made of them , unless by Seedees and Arabs , who ...
... banks of the Kitangule , where they had better feeding , and looked more sleek . Some horns were two and three feet long , and eighteen inches round the base . No use seemed to be made of them , unless by Seedees and Arabs , who ...
Side 192
... bank of the Kitangule , the distance via Meegongo was forty miles over flat - topped bare hills , and across valleys with swamps . On emerging from these to the river plain , the flat country became studded with mounds from six to eight ...
... bank of the Kitangule , the distance via Meegongo was forty miles over flat - topped bare hills , and across valleys with swamps . On emerging from these to the river plain , the flat country became studded with mounds from six to eight ...
Side 193
... bank of white gravel , the stream is almost hidden by the papyrus , which lines its sides in a depth of from twenty to sixty yards ; but when ferrying it , its majestic flow is seen . The canoes here were of one log of timber hol- lowed ...
... bank of white gravel , the stream is almost hidden by the papyrus , which lines its sides in a depth of from twenty to sixty yards ; but when ferrying it , its majestic flow is seen . The canoes here were of one log of timber hol- lowed ...
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Africa amongst animals antelope appeared Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads beautiful Berber birds Blue Nile boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries Crown Octavo dressed drums Edition Faloro feet four fowls Frij goats Gondokoro grain grass guns hands handsome head heard hills horns houses iron ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves looked M'tessa Madi Manua Mariboo miles morning musquitoes natives never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika sand Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees Turks tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyoro Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild women wood yards Zanzibar