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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... considerable knowledge , was that which extended upwards along the Nile , the immediate borders of which have always been not only habitable but fertile . Nothing astonished them more than to see this great river , which , after flowing ...
... considerable knowledge , was that which extended upwards along the Nile , the immediate borders of which have always been not only habitable but fertile . Nothing astonished them more than to see this great river , which , after flowing ...
Pàgina 34
... considerable space ; but when he saw the Atlantic waves beating against the dreary shore of the Sahara , that scene of frequent and terrible ship wreck , it probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the ...
... considerable space ; but when he saw the Atlantic waves beating against the dreary shore of the Sahara , that scene of frequent and terrible ship wreck , it probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the ...
Pàgina 67
... considerable time into that part of the African continent . CHAPTER VI . French Discoveries . FRANCE did not embark so early as some of the other powers in African discovery . Louis XIV . , aided by his minister Colbert , was the first ...
... considerable time into that part of the African continent . CHAPTER VI . French Discoveries . FRANCE did not embark so early as some of the other powers in African discovery . Louis XIV . , aided by his minister Colbert , was the first ...
Pàgina 83
... considerable information from the negro traders re- specting the interior countries . The Gambia at this station was deep and muddy , overshadowed with impenetrable thickets of mangrove , and the stream filled with crocodiles and river ...
... considerable information from the negro traders re- specting the interior countries . The Gambia at this station was deep and muddy , overshadowed with impenetrable thickets of mangrove , and the stream filled with crocodiles and river ...
Pàgina 103
... considerable magnitude , was attended with many difficulties ; and in one of them Isaaco the guide was nearly devoured by a cro- codile . It was near Satadoo , soon after passing the Falene , that the party experienced the first tornado ...
... considerable magnitude , was attended with many difficulties ; and in one of them Isaaco the guide was nearly devoured by a cro- codile . It was near Satadoo , soon after passing the Falene , that the party experienced the first tornado ...
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