A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 45
... formed the drinking water of the inhabitants . Scarcely a man amongst us escaped fever . We arrived on the 25th of January , and by the 1st February several were laid up . My first attack lasted seven days , the 2d , 4th , 6th , 7th ...
... formed the drinking water of the inhabitants . Scarcely a man amongst us escaped fever . We arrived on the 25th of January , and by the 1st February several were laid up . My first attack lasted seven days , the 2d , 4th , 6th , 7th ...
Side 50
... forming an equilateral triangle , answered every purpose of an iron utensil , and on it a frying - pan , made of bark , frizzled mush- rooms and meat to the chief's satisfaction . By his own account , he had shot many a lion from trees ...
... forming an equilateral triangle , answered every purpose of an iron utensil , and on it a frying - pan , made of bark , frizzled mush- rooms and meat to the chief's satisfaction . By his own account , he had shot many a lion from trees ...
Side 60
... forming a complete network round the stem of the palm . Tamarind - trees , so umbrageous and beautiful in outline , were numerous . There was also the rumex , from ten to twelve feet high ; and the tree , a ficus , whose bark affords ...
... forming a complete network round the stem of the palm . Tamarind - trees , so umbrageous and beautiful in outline , were numerous . There was also the rumex , from ten to twelve feet high ; and the tree , a ficus , whose bark affords ...
Side 66
... formed facing each other , and all sitting on the ground . Each had before him a stump of Indian corn and a teetotum of gourd in his hand . The object was to knock over with the spinning - totum the adversaries ' stump , and the efforts ...
... formed facing each other , and all sitting on the ground . Each had before him a stump of Indian corn and a teetotum of gourd in his hand . The object was to knock over with the spinning - totum the adversaries ' stump , and the efforts ...
Side 81
... forming gorges and passes between one valley and another . The village of the smaller sultan of Roongwa , seven miles to the N.W. , has some remarkably pretty landscapes in its neighbour- hood . Upon gently - swelling lands gloomy ...
... forming gorges and passes between one valley and another . The village of the smaller sultan of Roongwa , seven miles to the N.W. , has some remarkably pretty landscapes in its neighbour- hood . Upon gently - swelling lands gloomy ...
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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