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 ix
... Timbuctoo - Assassi- nated - Caillié undertakes a Journey - Reaches Jenne - Timbuctoo- Aroan - The Desert - Arrival at Tangier .... ......... 17C CHAPTER XIV . WESTERN AFRICA . General View of this Coast - Dahomey ; Norris and M'Leod ...
... Timbuctoo - Assassi- nated - Caillié undertakes a Journey - Reaches Jenne - Timbuctoo- Aroan - The Desert - Arrival at Tangier .... ......... 17C CHAPTER XIV . WESTERN AFRICA . General View of this Coast - Dahomey ; Norris and M'Leod ...
Pàgina 11
... Timbuctoo according to Caillié ......... 195 Ashantee Warrior and Attendant ......... 202 Negroes preparing the Manioc Root .. Negro Palaver - house . Queen of Lattakoo , Lattakoo Warrior , and two Bosjesman Hotten- tots ....... 225 230 ...
... Timbuctoo according to Caillié ......... 195 Ashantee Warrior and Attendant ......... 202 Negroes preparing the Manioc Root .. Negro Palaver - house . Queen of Lattakoo , Lattakoo Warrior , and two Bosjesman Hotten- tots ....... 225 230 ...
Pàgina 33
... 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 from Cyrene thither is not so great ; and nowhere but in the Tchad can we ...
... 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 from Cyrene thither is not so great ; and nowhere but in the Tchad can we ...
Pàgina 41
... Timbuctoo , Kashna , and Sackatoo ; but our late travellers found it , under the changed name , or rather or- thography , of Kano , still extensive and populous , and con- tinuing to be the chief seat of the interior commerce of Africa ...
... Timbuctoo , Kashna , and Sackatoo ; but our late travellers found it , under the changed name , or rather or- thography , of Kano , still extensive and populous , and con- tinuing to be the chief seat of the interior commerce of Africa ...
Pàgina 44
... Timbuctoo is chiefly supplied with salt . To our traveller the place appeared to contain no object desirable or agreeable there was nothing but salt ; the houses were built with slabs of that mineral , and roofed with the hides of ...
... Timbuctoo is chiefly supplied with salt . To our traveller the place appeared to contain no object desirable or agreeable there was nothing but salt ; the houses were built with slabs of that mineral , and roofed with the hides of ...
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