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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... Animal Life - Social Aspect - Striking Contrasts which it presents CHAPTER II . ............ KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA AMONG THE ANCIENTS . Page 13 Northern Africa well known - Obstacles opposed by the Desert - De- scription given by ...
... Animal Life - Social Aspect - Striking Contrasts which it presents CHAPTER II . ............ KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA AMONG THE ANCIENTS . Page 13 Northern Africa well known - Obstacles opposed by the Desert - De- scription given by ...
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... animal life in all its forms distinguishes the more temperate latitudes . Africa , considered in relation to her place on the map , forms an extensive continent , situated nearly in the centre of the earth , and obstructing the great ...
... animal life in all its forms distinguishes the more temperate latitudes . Africa , considered in relation to her place on the map , forms an extensive continent , situated nearly in the centre of the earth , and obstructing the great ...
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... animal and vegetable life . The soil , when not watered by copious rains or river inundations , is scorched and dried up till it is converted into a dreary waste . Hence it is , that in Af- rica plains of sand form a feature so truly ...
... animal and vegetable life . The soil , when not watered by copious rains or river inundations , is scorched and dried up till it is converted into a dreary waste . Hence it is , that in Af- rica plains of sand form a feature so truly ...
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... animal world * in Africa changes equally its nature as it passes from one to another of these opposite regions . In ... animals which surround him . and when the scent of human slaughter is wafted on the breeze , bands of hungry monsters ...
... animal world * in Africa changes equally its nature as it passes from one to another of these opposite regions . In ... animals which surround him . and when the scent of human slaughter is wafted on the breeze , bands of hungry monsters ...
Pàgina 19
... animal forms , with its long fore - legs and high - stretching neck of singular and fantastic beauty , crops the leaves of the African forest . Though a rare species , he is seen occasionally straying over a great proportion of that ...
... animal forms , with its long fore - legs and high - stretching neck of singular and fantastic beauty , crops the leaves of the African forest . Though a rare species , he is seen occasionally straying over a great proportion of that ...
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