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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... reach the sea only by a very circuitous course . Several of them , too , diffusing their waters into lakes or marshes , expire in the very heart of the continent . The result is , that the enormous breadth of the Sa- hara , or Great ...
... reach the sea only by a very circuitous course . Several of them , too , diffusing their waters into lakes or marshes , expire in the very heart of the continent . The result is , that the enormous breadth of the Sa- hara , or Great ...
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... reach- ed him respected a nation beyond the Pillars of Hercules , with whom the Carthaginians carried on trade in a very peculiar manner . This wild and timid race would not approach or hold par- ley with the strangers , who , on ...
... reach- ed him respected a nation beyond the Pillars of Hercules , with whom the Carthaginians carried on trade in a very peculiar manner . This wild and timid race would not approach or hold par- ley with the strangers , who , on ...
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... reach- ed an island , which they named Cerne , situated in a recess of the sea , where they established their last colony . Sailing onward still for a number of days , they saw a large river full of crocodiles and hippo- potami , and ...
... reach- ed an island , which they named Cerne , situated in a recess of the sea , where they established their last colony . Sailing onward still for a number of days , they saw a large river full of crocodiles and hippo- potami , and ...
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... reach , till they were recently explored by our en- terprising countrymen . Of these states Ghana was the most flourishing , forming the great market for that gold in search of which merchants came from the remotest regions . Its ...
... reach , till they were recently explored by our en- terprising countrymen . Of these states Ghana was the most flourishing , forming the great market for that gold in search of which merchants came from the remotest regions . Its ...
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... reach- ing the fertile regions watered by the Senegal and the Gambia . The early part of this progress was dreary in the extreme . The mariners saw only naked rocks and burning sands , stretching immeasurably into the in- terior , and ...
... reach- ing the fertile regions watered by the Senegal and the Gambia . The early part of this progress was dreary in the extreme . The mariners saw only naked rocks and burning sands , stretching immeasurably into the in- terior , and ...
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