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 12
... house , they devour every thing , clothes , furniture , food , not even , it is said , sparing the inmates , who are compelled to make a speedy retreat . Such are the evils to which the people of this con- tinent are perpetually exposed ...
... house , they devour every thing , clothes , furniture , food , not even , it is said , sparing the inmates , who are compelled to make a speedy retreat . Such are the evils to which the people of this con- tinent are perpetually exposed ...
Pàgina 17
... houses , without any fear of their melt- ing beneath a shower , in a region where rain was unknown . The land became almost a desert , and was filled with such multitudes of wild beasts as to be considered their proper inheritance , and ...
... houses , without any fear of their melt- ing beneath a shower , in a region where rain was unknown . The land became almost a desert , and was filled with such multitudes of wild beasts as to be considered their proper inheritance , and ...
Pàgina 21
... house , tending the children , and performing all the functions which are elsewhere exclusively assigned to females . As soon as the wife had gone through the necessary trouble of bearing a child , she handed it to the husband to be ...
... house , tending the children , and performing all the functions which are elsewhere exclusively assigned to females . As soon as the wife had gone through the necessary trouble of bearing a child , she handed it to the husband to be ...
Pàgina 44
... the place appeared to contain no object de- sirable or agreeable : there was nothing but salt ; the houses were built with slabs of that mineral , and roofed with the hides of camels . It even 44 SETTLEMENTS OF THE ARABS .
... the place appeared to contain no object de- sirable or agreeable : there was nothing but salt ; the houses were built with slabs of that mineral , and roofed with the hides of camels . It even 44 SETTLEMENTS OF THE ARABS .
Pàgina 98
... houses into a heap of ashes . Major Hough- ton ran out with the rest of the people into the fields , saving only such few articles as could be carried with him . He writes , that by trading at Fattaten- da a man may make 800 per cent ...
... houses into a heap of ashes . Major Hough- ton ran out with the rest of the people into the fields , saving only such few articles as could be carried with him . He writes , that by trading at Fattaten- da a man may make 800 per cent ...
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