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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... mentioned and strongly support- ed by Agatharchides , who wrote a learned work on the Red Sea ; which , however , was far from at- taining the favourable reception that it merited . The name of Ethiopia was very generally applied by the ...
... mentioned and strongly support- ed by Agatharchides , who wrote a learned work on the Red Sea ; which , however , was far from at- taining the favourable reception that it merited . The name of Ethiopia was very generally applied by the ...
Pàgina 29
... mention- ed as occupying the district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was still unknown in the vast interior of this continent . They passed ...
... mention- ed as occupying the district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was still unknown in the vast interior of this continent . They passed ...
Pàgina 43
... mention the island of Ulil , whence were brought great quanti- ties of salt , an article which is in constant demand throughout Soudan . Ulil , though called an island , was probably Walet , the great interior market for that mineral ...
... mention the island of Ulil , whence were brought great quanti- ties of salt , an article which is in constant demand throughout Soudan . Ulil , though called an island , was probably Walet , the great interior market for that mineral ...
Pàgina 47
... mention , had now risen to be the most powerful of the inte- rior kingdoms , and the great centre of commerce and wealth . Ghana , once possessed of imperial great- ness , had already changed its name to Kano , and was ranked as ...
... mention , had now risen to be the most powerful of the inte- rior kingdoms , and the great centre of commerce and wealth . Ghana , once possessed of imperial great- ness , had already changed its name to Kano , and was ranked as ...
Pàgina 48
... mentioned for the first time ; -Casena or Cassina , ( Kashna , ) Zegzeg , Zanfara , and Guber . Gago , represented as being four hundred miles south - east of Timbuctoo , is evidently Eyeo , lately visited by Clapperton . Ghinea or ...
... mentioned for the first time ; -Casena or Cassina , ( Kashna , ) Zegzeg , Zanfara , and Guber . Gago , represented as being four hundred miles south - east of Timbuctoo , is evidently Eyeo , lately visited by Clapperton . Ghinea or ...
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