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
... Appearance of that Country- Kano - Sackatoo - Sultan Bello - Return of the Travellers ... 126 CHAPTER XIII . CLAPPERTON'S SECOND JOURNEY , & c . Objects of this Journey - Departure from Badagry - Death of Pearce and of Morrison ...
... Appearance of that Country- Kano - Sackatoo - Sultan Bello - Return of the Travellers ... 126 CHAPTER XIII . CLAPPERTON'S SECOND JOURNEY , & c . Objects of this Journey - Departure from Badagry - Death of Pearce and of Morrison ...
Pàgina 20
... appearance , yet not without some kind of union and polity . The monkey tribe , now familiar in Europe , and attracting attention by their playful movements , fill with sportive cries all the fo- rests of tropical Africa . The insect ...
... appearance , yet not without some kind of union and polity . The monkey tribe , now familiar in Europe , and attracting attention by their playful movements , fill with sportive cries all the fo- rests of tropical Africa . The insect ...
Pàgina 23
... appeared a barrier vast and awful endless plains of moving sand , without a shrub , a blade of grass , or a single object by which human life could be cheered or supported . This appalling boundary , which stopped the victorious career ...
... appeared a barrier vast and awful endless plains of moving sand , without a shrub , a blade of grass , or a single object by which human life could be cheered or supported . This appalling boundary , which stopped the victorious career ...
Pàgina 24
... appeared dimly as through a cloud , and tinged with a certain fabulous and poetical colouring . Herodotus , the earliest and most interesting of Greek historians , when endeavouring to collect information respect- ing the whole of the ...
... appeared dimly as through a cloud , and tinged with a certain fabulous and poetical colouring . Herodotus , the earliest and most interesting of Greek historians , when endeavouring to collect information respect- ing the whole of the ...
Pàgina 33
... appeared a band of little black men , who seized and carried them off as captives . They were led along vast lakes and marshes , to a town situated on a large river flowing from west to east , and inhabited by a nation all of the same ...
... appeared a band of little black men , who seized and carried them off as captives . They were led along vast lakes and marshes , to a town situated on a large river flowing from west to east , and inhabited by a nation all of the same ...
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