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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... character of the people who occupy the interior parts of the Libyan continent . In a word , while exploring these remote regions , they braved almost every species of danger , and passed through every variety of suffering , by which the ...
... character of the people who occupy the interior parts of the Libyan continent . In a word , while exploring these remote regions , they braved almost every species of danger , and passed through every variety of suffering , by which the ...
Pàgina ix
... Character - Superstitions - War and Slavery - Some amiable Fea- tures - Forms of Government - Foreign Races - Mohammedan Con- verts - European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany District Sierra Leone CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF ...
... Character - Superstitions - War and Slavery - Some amiable Fea- tures - Forms of Government - Foreign Races - Mohammedan Con- verts - European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany District Sierra Leone CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF ...
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... character , and of immense extent . In order to obviate the extreme effects of the tropical sun , which produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has pro- vided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season ...
... character , and of immense extent . In order to obviate the extreme effects of the tropical sun , which produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has pro- vided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season ...
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... character , but wears even a peculiarly pleasing and smiling aspect . The animal world * in Africa changes equally its nature as it passes from one to another of these opposite regions . In those plains which are inundated by the great ...
... character , but wears even a peculiarly pleasing and smiling aspect . The animal world * in Africa changes equally its nature as it passes from one to another of these opposite regions . In those plains which are inundated by the great ...
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... character , these alterna- tions of wildness and of beauty , of lawless violence and of the most generous kindness , render the progress of the tra- veller through this continent more interesting and eventful , more diversified by ...
... character , these alterna- tions of wildness and of beauty , of lawless violence and of the most generous kindness , render the progress of the tra- veller through this continent more interesting and eventful , more diversified by ...
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