Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyJ. & J. Harper, 1846 - 359 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... Gambia - Richard Thompson - His Death - Jobson's Voy . age up the Gambia - Manners of the Native Africans - Vermuyden- Stibbs 57 CHAPTER VI . FRENCH DISCOVERIES . French Settlement on the Senegal - Jannequin's Voyage - Voyages of Brue ...
... Gambia - Richard Thompson - His Death - Jobson's Voy . age up the Gambia - Manners of the Native Africans - Vermuyden- Stibbs 57 CHAPTER VI . FRENCH DISCOVERIES . French Settlement on the Senegal - Jannequin's Voyage - Voyages of Brue ...
Pàgina 48
... Gambia . Be- The early part of this progress was dreary in the ex- treme . The mariners saw only naked rocks and burning sands , stretching immeasurably into the interior , and afford- ing no encouragement to any project of settlement ...
... Gambia . Be- The early part of this progress was dreary in the ex- treme . The mariners saw only naked rocks and burning sands , stretching immeasurably into the interior , and afford- ing no encouragement to any project of settlement ...
Pàgina 58
... Gambia , or , as was more commonly supposed , by both these rivers , imagined to be branches proceeding from the great stream . By ascending either the Senegal or Gam- bia , it therefore seemed possible to reach Timbuctoo and the ...
... Gambia , or , as was more commonly supposed , by both these rivers , imagined to be branches proceeding from the great stream . By ascending either the Senegal or Gam- bia , it therefore seemed possible to reach Timbuctoo and the ...
Pàgina 59
... Gambia in November , 1620 ; but what was his dismay on receiving the tidings that Thomp son had perished by the hands of his own men ! Mutiny was then a frequent occurrence on these hard and distant services ; but how it arose in this ...
... Gambia in November , 1620 ; but what was his dismay on receiving the tidings that Thomp son had perished by the hands of his own men ! Mutiny was then a frequent occurrence on these hard and distant services ; but how it arose in this ...
Pàgina 61
... Gambia . This personage accordingly waited on them ; but being treated with brandy , used it so immoderately that he lay all night dead drunk in the boat . However , he seems on this occasion to have been merely off his guard , as he ...
... Gambia . This personage accordingly waited on them ; but being treated with brandy , used it so immoderately that he lay all night dead drunk in the boat . However , he seems on this occasion to have been merely off his guard , as he ...
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