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 viii
... Major Peddie arrives at Kakundy - His Death - Captain Campbell advances into the Foulah Territory - Obliged to return - His Death - Gray - Laing - Ritchie and Lyon - Death of Ritchie ...... 121 CHAPTER XII . DENHAM AND CLAPPERTON ...
... Major Peddie arrives at Kakundy - His Death - Captain Campbell advances into the Foulah Territory - Obliged to return - His Death - Gray - Laing - Ritchie and Lyon - Death of Ritchie ...... 121 CHAPTER XII . DENHAM AND CLAPPERTON ...
Pàgina 33
... Major Rennel conceives it to be the Niger of Park , and the city to be Timbuctoo ; but since the late discoveries of Denham and Clapperton , it has appeared more probable that the stream was the Yeou or river of Bornou . The distance ...
... Major Rennel conceives it to be the Niger of Park , and the city to be Timbuctoo ; but since the late discoveries of Denham and Clapperton , it has appeared more probable that the stream was the Yeou or river of Bornou . The distance ...
Pàgina 41
... Major Denham , we find this called the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms another kingdom , on whose power and extent the Arabian writers largely dilate . The sovereign is said to have a very numerous train of ...
... Major Denham , we find this called the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms another kingdom , on whose power and extent the Arabian writers largely dilate . The sovereign is said to have a very numerous train of ...
Pàgina 113
... Major Denham afterward learned that he had penetrated across Africa as far as Nyffe A on the Niger , where he fell a victim HORNEMAN . 113.
... Major Denham afterward learned that he had penetrated across Africa as far as Nyffe A on the Niger , where he fell a victim HORNEMAN . 113.
Pàgina 127
... Major Denham , Lieutenant Clap- perton of the navy , and Dr. Oudney , a naval surgeon pos- sessing a considerable knowledge of natural history , were appointed to this service . Without delay they proceeded to Tripoli , where they ...
... Major Denham , Lieutenant Clap- perton of the navy , and Dr. Oudney , a naval surgeon pos- sessing a considerable knowledge of natural history , were appointed to this service . Without delay they proceeded to Tripoli , where they ...
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