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 26
... probably have omitted . He pretends , for example , that none of them bear proper names ; that they neither eat ani- mal food nor dream dreams ; and , what is not quite so im- probable , that on seeing the sun rise , they pour ...
... probably have omitted . He pretends , for example , that none of them bear proper names ; that they neither eat ani- mal food nor dream dreams ; and , what is not quite so im- probable , that on seeing the sun rise , they pour ...
Pàgina 34
... probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the one which here menaced him . He returned , and presented himself before Xerxes , giving a doleful description of the hardships which he had encountered ...
... probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the one which here menaced him . He returned , and presented himself before Xerxes , giving a doleful description of the hardships which he had encountered ...
Pàgina 38
... probably must remain for ever in darkness as to the issue of this last ex- pedition . It must not be concealed , that authors of great name , not excepting Strabo himself , have branded Eudoxus as a decided impostor ; a reproach which ...
... probably must remain for ever in darkness as to the issue of this last ex- pedition . It must not be concealed , that authors of great name , not excepting Strabo himself , have branded Eudoxus as a decided impostor ; a reproach which ...
Pàgina 39
... probably a century later , gives the more remote position of Prasum as a promontory , port , and city , to which in his time navigators were accus- tomed to sail . We have no fact to guide us to the locality of that town , except that ...
... probably a century later , gives the more remote position of Prasum as a promontory , port , and city , to which in his time navigators were accus- tomed to sail . We have no fact to guide us to the locality of that town , except that ...
Pàgina 43
... probably Walet , the great interior market for that mineral ; but all the features of the country around and beyond it seem to have been confusedly blended together by the Mo hammedan authors . At the time when the Arabian geographers ...
... probably Walet , the great interior market for that mineral ; but all the features of the country around and beyond it seem to have been confusedly blended together by the Mo hammedan authors . At the time when the Arabian geographers ...
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