Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, 1830 - 503 pàgines |
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... ENGLISH DISCOVERIES . Decline of Portuguese maritime Power - Company formed in England to explore the Gambia - Richard Thompson -His Death - Jobson's Voyage up the Gambia - Man- ners of the Native Africans - Vermuyden - Stibbs ...
... ENGLISH DISCOVERIES . Decline of Portuguese maritime Power - Company formed in England to explore the Gambia - Richard Thompson -His Death - Jobson's Voyage up the Gambia - Man- ners of the Native Africans - Vermuyden - Stibbs ...
Pàgina 44
... English public have just been indebted to the learned labours of Professor Lee of Cambridge , as a member of the Society for Orien- tal Translation . Unfortunately he could only procure the work in a very abridged form , which renders ...
... English public have just been indebted to the learned labours of Professor Lee of Cambridge , as a member of the Society for Orien- tal Translation . Unfortunately he could only procure the work in a very abridged form , which renders ...
Pàgina 63
... - aries were expelled from Congo ; but a late expe- dition did not find on the banks of the Zaire any trace or even recollection of either . CHAPTER V. Early English Discoveries . THE Portuguese , while PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES . 63.
... - aries were expelled from Congo ; but a late expe- dition did not find on the banks of the Zaire any trace or even recollection of either . CHAPTER V. Early English Discoveries . THE Portuguese , while PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES . 63.
Pàgina 64
... English Discoveries . THE Portuguese , while they bore away the palm of maritime enterprise from all other nations , consi- dered Africa most especially as a region which they had won for themselves , and had covered with tro- phies of ...
... English Discoveries . THE Portuguese , while they bore away the palm of maritime enterprise from all other nations , consi- dered Africa most especially as a region which they had won for themselves , and had covered with tro- phies of ...
Pàgina 65
... English nations , whose turn it was to take the lead in European affairs , pressed eagerly forward in this career , endeavouring at once to surpass their pre- decessors and each other . Many of their African settlements were formed with ...
... English nations , whose turn it was to take the lead in European affairs , pressed eagerly forward in this career , endeavouring at once to surpass their pre- decessors and each other . Many of their African settlements were formed with ...
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