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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... frequently found their efforts checked , and their career arrested , by the operation of causes which , although equally powerful , were yet ex- tremely different in their nature . In the Northern Seas , they suffered from that dreadful ...
... frequently found their efforts checked , and their career arrested , by the operation of causes which , although equally powerful , were yet ex- tremely different in their nature . In the Northern Seas , they suffered from that dreadful ...
Pàgina 8
... frequently the aggressor , not only with the view of protecting the fruits of the earth , but also in order to obtain the bony substance composing his tusks , which , under the name of ivory , forms one of the most valued articles of ...
... frequently the aggressor , not only with the view of protecting the fruits of the earth , but also in order to obtain the bony substance composing his tusks , which , under the name of ivory , forms one of the most valued articles of ...
Pàgina 11
... frequently lead to its extinction . Even a swarm of wild bees , in the solitary woods of Western Africa , has put a whole caravan to flight , wounding severely some of its members . But perhaps the most extraor- dinary of all the insect ...
... frequently lead to its extinction . Even a swarm of wild bees , in the solitary woods of Western Africa , has put a whole caravan to flight , wounding severely some of its members . But perhaps the most extraor- dinary of all the insect ...
Pàgina 30
... the dreary shore of the Sahara , that scene of frequent and terrible shipwreck , it probably appear- ed to him that any ordinary form of death was pre- ferable to the one which here menaced him . He 30 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
... the dreary shore of the Sahara , that scene of frequent and terrible shipwreck , it probably appear- ed to him that any ordinary form of death was pre- ferable to the one which here menaced him . He 30 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
Pàgina 32
... frequently occasioned in such countries by the practice of setting fire to the grass at the end of au- tumn . Next appeared an island in a bay , where they found a most singular race , bearing the human form indeed , but covered with ...
... frequently occasioned in such countries by the practice of setting fire to the grass at the end of au- tumn . Next appeared an island in a bay , where they found a most singular race , bearing the human form indeed , but covered with ...
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