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 29
... town situated on a large river flowing from west to east , and inhabited by a nation all of the same size and colour with the strangers , and strongly addicted to the arts of ne- cromancy . It is not said how or by what route they ...
... town situated on a large river flowing from west to east , and inhabited by a nation all of the same size and colour with the strangers , and strongly addicted to the arts of ne- cromancy . It is not said how or by what route they ...
Pàgina 37
... of ancient navigation in this di- rection , could the learned agree where that town was situated ; but all the names being changed , and no observations of latitude having been made , it is ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA . 37.
... of ancient navigation in this di- rection , could the learned agree where that town was situated ; but all the names being changed , and no observations of latitude having been made , it is ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA . 37.
Pàgina 38
... town , except that it was two or three hundred miles south - east from Rhapta . Gosselin makes it Brava ; but this is still short of the mouths of the seven rivers which afford the test of this chain of positions . Dr Vincent , again ...
... town , except that it was two or three hundred miles south - east from Rhapta . Gosselin makes it Brava ; but this is still short of the mouths of the seven rivers which afford the test of this chain of positions . Dr Vincent , again ...
Pàgina 44
... town , situated in a territory abounding with date- trees . Having joined a caravan , he came , after a journey of twenty - five days , to Thargari , which some manuscripts make Tagaza , and is therefore evidently the Tegazza of Leo ...
... town , situated in a territory abounding with date- trees . Having joined a caravan , he came , after a journey of twenty - five days , to Thargari , which some manuscripts make Tagaza , and is therefore evidently the Tegazza of Leo ...
Pàgina 45
... town , crowded with merchants from various quarters of the continent . The man- ners of the people , as is indeed too common in the scenes of inland traffic throughout Africa , appeared to him very licentious , and wholly destitute of ...
... town , crowded with merchants from various quarters of the continent . The man- ners of the people , as is indeed too common in the scenes of inland traffic throughout Africa , appeared to him very licentious , and wholly destitute of ...
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