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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Pàgina 15
... extended dominion of Rome . Yet , though all Mediterranean Africa thus merged into a province of the Roman world ... extend be- yond the tract bordering on the coast and the river . After proceeding a few journeys into the interior , the ...
... extended dominion of Rome . Yet , though all Mediterranean Africa thus merged into a province of the Roman world ... extend be- yond the tract bordering on the coast and the river . After proceeding a few journeys into the interior , the ...
Pàgina 23
... extended up- wards along the Nile , the immediate borders of which have always been not only habitable but fertile . Nothing astonished them more than to see this great river , which , after flowing through a region where there did not ...
... extended up- wards along the Nile , the immediate borders of which have always been not only habitable but fertile . Nothing astonished them more than to see this great river , which , after flowing through a region where there did not ...
Pàgina 26
... extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each side by two unknown coasts , which stretched so far that it was not possible to conjecture their termination . Two tempestuous oceans , a desert the most dreary on the face ...
... extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each side by two unknown coasts , which stretched so far that it was not possible to conjecture their termination . Two tempestuous oceans , a desert the most dreary on the face ...
Pàgina 33
... extended , and what propor- tion of the African coast it surveyed , has been the subject of long and learned controversy . The only two disputants who now appear on the field are Ma- jor Rennel and M. Gosselin ; the former of whom ...
... extended , and what propor- tion of the African coast it surveyed , has been the subject of long and learned controversy . The only two disputants who now appear on the field are Ma- jor Rennel and M. Gosselin ; the former of whom ...
Pàgina 46
... extend to him some measure of bounty . Ibn Batuta , however , was disgusted by the abject homage paid to this monarch , as it still is to the native princes of Africa ; the courtiers , as they approached , casting dust on their heads ...
... extend to him some measure of bounty . Ibn Batuta , however , was disgusted by the abject homage paid to this monarch , as it still is to the native princes of Africa ; the courtiers , as they approached , casting dust on their heads ...
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