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 37
... person to another . The descriptions of Strabo , collected from the best sources with severe and even malignant scrutiny , contain none of those suspicious wonders , nor any event which at all exceeds the common course of nature . A ...
... person to another . The descriptions of Strabo , collected from the best sources with severe and even malignant scrutiny , contain none of those suspicious wonders , nor any event which at all exceeds the common course of nature . A ...
Pàgina 44
... person the regions which they describe . Arabic literature has , notwith- standing , been also enriched by the productions of some eminent travellers . Wahab and Abuzaid , in the ninth century , penetrated into China , and com ...
... person the regions which they describe . Arabic literature has , notwith- standing , been also enriched by the productions of some eminent travellers . Wahab and Abuzaid , in the ninth century , penetrated into China , and com ...
Pàgina 48
... person . He displayed solid masses , larger even than the one at Ghana , and some of his orna- ments weighed 1300 ounces . The royal palace and several mosques were handsomely built of stone ; but the ordinary habitations here , as in ...
... person . He displayed solid masses , larger even than the one at Ghana , and some of his orna- ments weighed 1300 ounces . The royal palace and several mosques were handsomely built of stone ; but the ordinary habitations here , as in ...
Pàgina 51
... person , of whom they had heard much under the mysterious appellation of Prester John . This singular name seems to have been first introduced by travellers from Eastern Asia , where it had been applied to some Nestorian bishop , who ...
... person , of whom they had heard much under the mysterious appellation of Prester John . This singular name seems to have been first introduced by travellers from Eastern Asia , where it had been applied to some Nestorian bishop , who ...
Pàgina 55
... persons were on board his ship , weighed anchor , and stood out to sea . He soothed the alarm visible in the countenances of their countrymen on shore , by signs , intimating that this step was taken solely to gratify the anxious desire ...
... persons were on board his ship , weighed anchor , and stood out to sea . He soothed the alarm visible in the countenances of their countrymen on shore , by signs , intimating that this step was taken solely to gratify the anxious desire ...
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