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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... capital ; and fine remains of Grecian architecture still attest the fact of this city having been a great and civilized metropolis . Every ancient description , however , represents the native inhabitants of these shores as existing in ...
... capital ; and fine remains of Grecian architecture still attest the fact of this city having been a great and civilized metropolis . Every ancient description , however , represents the native inhabitants of these shores as existing in ...
Pàgina 39
... capital , Fez , became a distinguished school of learning . Their love of improvement reached even the most dis- tant regions . They introduced the camel , which , though a native of the sandy wastes of Arabia , was equally adapted to ...
... capital , Fez , became a distinguished school of learning . Their love of improvement reached even the most dis- tant regions . They introduced the camel , which , though a native of the sandy wastes of Arabia , was equally adapted to ...
Pàgina 41
... capital of an empire which comprehends Ghana and all the neigh- bouring countries . Indeed , in an official document communicated by Major Denham , we find this call- ed the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms ...
... capital of an empire which comprehends Ghana and all the neigh- bouring countries . Indeed , in an official document communicated by Major Denham , we find this call- ed the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms ...
Pàgina 51
... African continent was very imper- fectly understood , the conclusion was formed that a mission from the western coast might easily reach his capital . What were the precise expectations formed from PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES . 51.
... African continent was very imper- fectly understood , the conclusion was formed that a mission from the western coast might easily reach his capital . What were the precise expectations formed from PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES . 51.
Pàgina 52
... capital . What were the precise expectations formed from an intercourse with this personage does not fully appear ; but it seems to have been tho- roughly rooted in the minds of the Portuguese , that they would be raised to a matchless ...
... capital . What were the precise expectations formed from an intercourse with this personage does not fully appear ; but it seems to have been tho- roughly rooted in the minds of the Portuguese , that they would be raised to a matchless ...
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