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
... lives in foreign and distant bondage . Superstition , tyranny , anarchy , and the opposing interests of numberless petty states , main- tain a constant and destructive warfare in this suffer- ing 12 NATURAL FEATURES OF AFRICA .
... lives in foreign and distant bondage . Superstition , tyranny , anarchy , and the opposing interests of numberless petty states , main- tain a constant and destructive warfare in this suffer- ing 12 NATURAL FEATURES OF AFRICA .
Pàgina 61
... live together for some time , and make trial of each other's tem- pers and inclinations , before they formed the final engagement . To this system of probation the people were most obstinately attached , and the mission- aries in vain ...
... live together for some time , and make trial of each other's tem- pers and inclinations , before they formed the final engagement . To this system of probation the people were most obstinately attached , and the mission- aries in vain ...
Pàgina 98
... live in plenty on ten pounds a - year . Quitting the Gambia , he took the road through Bambouk , and arrived at Ferbanna on the Faleme . Here he was received with the most extraordinary kindness by the king , who gave him a guide and ...
... live in plenty on ten pounds a - year . Quitting the Gambia , he took the road through Bambouk , and arrived at Ferbanna on the Faleme . Here he was received with the most extraordinary kindness by the king , who gave him a guide and ...
Pàgina 173
... live partly on the milk of their camels , which pick up a scanty subsistence on the few ver- dant spots that rise amid the Desert , partly by car- rying on a small trade between Mourzouk and Bor- nou , in which they are so busily ...
... live partly on the milk of their camels , which pick up a scanty subsistence on the few ver- dant spots that rise amid the Desert , partly by car- rying on a small trade between Mourzouk and Bor- nou , in which they are so busily ...
Pàgina 174
... live in houses and cultivate the ground ; yet they are perhaps the only native Afri- cans who have letters and an alphabet , which they inscribe , not on books and parchments indeed , but on the dark rocks that chequer the surface of ...
... live in houses and cultivate the ground ; yet they are perhaps the only native Afri- cans who have letters and an alphabet , which they inscribe , not on books and parchments indeed , but on the dark rocks that chequer the surface of ...
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