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 xii
... Salt Lakes - De- sert of Bilma - Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave - On what Formation does the Sand of the Desert rest ? -Descrip- tion of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and Native Meteoric Iron in the Desert - Observations on the Sand ...
... Salt Lakes - De- sert of Bilma - Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave - On what Formation does the Sand of the Desert rest ? -Descrip- tion of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and Native Meteoric Iron in the Desert - Observations on the Sand ...
Pàgina 17
... salt arose , out of which the natives con- structed their houses , without any fear of their melt- ing beneath a shower , in a region where rain was unknown . The land became almost a desert , and was filled with such multitudes of wild ...
... salt arose , out of which the natives con- structed their houses , without any fear of their melt- ing beneath a shower , in a region where rain was unknown . The land became almost a desert , and was filled with such multitudes of wild ...
Pàgina 43
... 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 ; but all the features of the country around and beyond it seem to have ...
... 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 ; but all the features of the country around and beyond it seem to have ...
Pàgina 44
... salt . To our traveller the place appeared to contain no object de- sirable or agreeable : there was nothing but salt ; the houses were built with slabs of that mineral , and roofed with the hides of camels . It even 44 SETTLEMENTS OF ...
... salt . To our traveller the place appeared to contain no object de- sirable or agreeable : there was nothing but salt ; the houses were built with slabs of that mineral , and roofed with the hides of camels . It even 44 SETTLEMENTS OF ...
Pàgina 57
... salt , which , in Congo , is an extremely rare and valued commodity ; and the missionaries were not a little disconcerted to find that the very form by which the natives expressed baptism was " to eat salt . " Thus an immense body of ...
... salt , which , in Congo , is an extremely rare and valued commodity ; and the missionaries were not a little disconcerted to find that the very form by which the natives expressed baptism was " to eat salt . " Thus an immense body of ...
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