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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... received a wild and peculiar homage , in being attended to the tomb by a number of their wives , courtiers , and servants , all eagerly canvassing for this honour , -a practice of savage life still extensively prevalent in pagan Africa ...
... received a wild and peculiar homage , in being attended to the tomb by a number of their wives , courtiers , and servants , all eagerly canvassing for this honour , -a practice of savage life still extensively prevalent in pagan Africa ...
Pàgina 36
... received him well , and ordered an expedition to be prepared ; but Eudoxus was privately warned that this treacherous prince , instead of forwarding him on his voyage , intended that his people should land and leave him to perish on an ...
... received him well , and ordered an expedition to be prepared ; but Eudoxus was privately warned that this treacherous prince , instead of forwarding him on his voyage , intended that his people should land and leave him to perish on an ...
Pàgina 37
... received all their food by the nose . These are the wild exaggerations which , in a credulous age , a story un- dergoes in passing from one person to another . The descriptions of Strabo , collected from the best sources with severe and ...
... received all their food by the nose . These are the wild exaggerations which , in a credulous age , a story un- dergoes in passing from one person to another . The descriptions of Strabo , collected from the best sources with severe and ...
Pàgina 41
... received gold and ornaments . Men- tion is made of the fine cotton cloths which still form the staple manufacture . Tocrur appears evidently to be Sackatoo or Soccatoo , now the capital of an empire which comprehends Ghana and all the ...
... received gold and ornaments . Men- tion is made of the fine cotton cloths which still form the staple manufacture . Tocrur appears evidently to be Sackatoo or Soccatoo , now the capital of an empire which comprehends Ghana and all the ...
Pàgina 46
... received the like ; and his majesty , instead of being incensed , began to extend to him some measure of bounty . Ibn Batuta , however , was disgusted by the abject homage paid to this monarch , as it still is to the native princes of ...
... received the like ; and his majesty , instead of being incensed , began to extend to him some measure of bounty . Ibn Batuta , however , was disgusted by the abject homage paid to this monarch , as it still is to the native princes of ...
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