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
... Herodotus - by Diodorus - by Strabo - Ancient Ac counts of the Nile - of Ethiopia - of Abyssinia - Expedition sent by Necho - Journey of the Nasamones - Voyage of Sataspes - of Hanno Voyages of Eudoxus - Periplus of the Erythrean Sea ...
... Herodotus - by Diodorus - by Strabo - Ancient Ac counts of the Nile - of Ethiopia - of Abyssinia - Expedition sent by Necho - Journey of the Nasamones - Voyage of Sataspes - of Hanno Voyages of Eudoxus - Periplus of the Erythrean Sea ...
Pàgina 24
... Herodotus , the earliest and most interesting of Greek historians , when endeavouring to collect information respect- ing the whole of the known world , was obliged , in the ab- sence of written records , to have recourse to travelling ...
... Herodotus , the earliest and most interesting of Greek historians , when endeavouring to collect information respect- ing the whole of the known world , was obliged , in the ab- sence of written records , to have recourse to travelling ...
Pàgina 26
... Herodotus finds a tribe of the Auses , called Maxyes , who cultivated the ground ; and he is now on the border of the Carthaginian territory , of which , for reasons that Major Rennel cannot fully compre- hend , he forbears to treat ...
... Herodotus finds a tribe of the Auses , called Maxyes , who cultivated the ground ; and he is now on the border of the Carthaginian territory , of which , for reasons that Major Rennel cannot fully compre- hend , he forbears to treat ...
Pàgina 27
... Herodotus here stops , frankly owning that his information did not enable him to go farther . The only other accounts which had reached him respected a nation beyond the Pillars of Her- cules , with whom the Carthaginians carried on ...
... Herodotus here stops , frankly owning that his information did not enable him to go farther . The only other accounts which had reached him respected a nation beyond the Pillars of Her- cules , with whom the Carthaginians carried on ...
Pàgina 30
... Herodotus , that the latter country derived from Egypt all which she possessed of art and civilization . The sovereigns of Ethiopia are said to have received a wild and peculiar homage , in being attended to the tomb by a number of ...
... Herodotus , that the latter country derived from Egypt all which she possessed of art and civilization . The sovereigns of Ethiopia are said to have received a wild and peculiar homage , in being attended to the tomb by a number of ...
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