A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 sider |
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Side 42
... sent them even to sit apart from your tent , as the smoke of their fires , the odour of their persons , and their total want of delicacy annoy you . All these grievances my companion bore with great patience , and often got the ...
... sent them even to sit apart from your tent , as the smoke of their fires , the odour of their persons , and their total want of delicacy annoy you . All these grievances my companion bore with great patience , and often got the ...
Side 52
... sent us presents of eggs , some coffee , a fatted cow , rice , or a goat - a very pleasing custom , which was intended as their call upon us . We in return sent each a handsome cloth , which they valued very much . This friendly ...
... sent us presents of eggs , some coffee , a fatted cow , rice , or a goat - a very pleasing custom , which was intended as their call upon us . We in return sent each a handsome cloth , which they valued very much . This friendly ...
Side 53
... sent in the morning . " Moos- sah was tired of assisting them . " The Arabs stick at nothing ; they had expended twenty barrels of his gun- powder and lost him five slaves ; a beautiful gun of his was lost by his late partner Jaffir in ...
... sent in the morning . " Moos- sah was tired of assisting them . " The Arabs stick at nothing ; they had expended twenty barrels of his gun- powder and lost him five slaves ; a beautiful gun of his was lost by his late partner Jaffir in ...
Side 55
... sent him * At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther than Karague ; but I observe that Speke , in his Journal , states that Moossah ( or " Musa , " as he writes the name ) had reached Uganda . 56 DEPARTURE FROM ...
... sent him * At Kazeh I understood that Moossah had never travelled farther than Karague ; but I observe that Speke , in his Journal , states that Moossah ( or " Musa , " as he writes the name ) had reached Uganda . 56 DEPARTURE FROM ...
Side 56
... sent . ' " " All this exciting information made us eager for a move , but Moossah kept delaying . However , by the middle of March we had finished maps from observa- tions , made collections , boiled thermometers , inspected newly ...
... sent . ' " " All this exciting information made us eager for a move , but Moossah kept delaying . However , by the middle of March we had finished maps from observa- tions , made collections , boiled thermometers , inspected newly ...
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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