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 iv
... human life , which renders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to experience in the latter from the fierce , contemptuous , and persecuting character of the people who occupy the interior parts of the Libyan continent . In a word ...
... human life , which renders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to experience in the latter from the fierce , contemptuous , and persecuting character of the people who occupy the interior parts of the Libyan continent . In a word ...
Pàgina xii
... Human Skeletons in the Desert - Natron and Salt Lakes - De- sert of Bilma - Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave - On what Formation does the Sand of the Desert rest ? -Descrip- tion of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and Native Meteoric ...
... Human Skeletons in the Desert - Natron and Salt Lakes - De- sert of Bilma - Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave - On what Formation does the Sand of the Desert rest ? -Descrip- tion of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and Native Meteoric ...
Pàgina 7
... human slaugh- ter is wafted on the breeze , bands of hungry monsters hasten from every side to the feast of blood . These ferocious creatures hold , indeed , so commanding a position , that the colonist scarcely makes any at- tempt to ...
... human slaugh- ter is wafted on the breeze , bands of hungry monsters hasten from every side to the feast of blood . These ferocious creatures hold , indeed , so commanding a position , that the colonist scarcely makes any at- tempt to ...
Pàgina 8
... human being is more 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 ...
... human being is more 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 ...
Pàgina 10
... human form divine . " The oran - outang appears to constitute the link be- tween man and the lower orders of living things . Standing erect , without a tail , with flat face , and arms of not greatly disproportioned length , it dis ...
... human form divine . " The oran - outang appears to constitute the link be- tween man and the lower orders of living things . Standing erect , without a tail , with flat face , and arms of not greatly disproportioned length , it dis ...
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