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 33
... town situated on a large river flowing from west to east , and inhabited by a nation all of the same size and colour with the strangers , and strongly addicted to the arts of necromancy . It is not said how or by what route they ...
... town situated on a large river flowing from west to east , and inhabited by a nation all of the same size and colour with the strangers , and strongly addicted to the arts of necromancy . It is not said how or by what route they ...
Pàgina 39
... town was situated ; but all the names being changed , and no observations of latitude having been made , it is impossible to fix with certainty any one position . Rhapta , according to Gosselin , was Magadoxo ; according to Vossius and ...
... town was situated ; but all the names being changed , and no observations of latitude having been made , it is impossible to fix with certainty any one position . Rhapta , according to Gosselin , was Magadoxo ; according to Vossius and ...
Pàgina 44
... town , situated in a territory abounding with date - trees . Having joined a ca- ravan , he came , after a journey of twenty - five days , to Thargari , which some manuscripts make Tagaza , and is therefore evidently the Tegazza of Leo ...
... town , situated in a territory abounding with date - trees . Having joined a ca- ravan , he came , after a journey of twenty - five days , to Thargari , which some manuscripts make Tagaza , and is therefore evidently the Tegazza of Leo ...
Pàgina 45
... town is de- scribed as being chiefly peopled by merchants from Latham , but what particular country that was it appears now impos- sible to conjecture . He next proceeded eastward by Ka- kaw , Bardama , and Nakda , where he seems to ...
... town is de- scribed as being chiefly peopled by merchants from Latham , but what particular country that was it appears now impos- sible to conjecture . He next proceeded eastward by Ka- kaw , Bardama , and Nakda , where he seems to ...
Pàgina 47
... Towns and the Italian republics began to cultivate manufactures and commerce , and to lay the foundation of a still higher prosperity ; but they carried on chiefly an inland or coasting trade . The naval efforts even of Venice and Genoa ...
... Towns and the Italian republics began to cultivate manufactures and commerce , and to lay the foundation of a still higher prosperity ; but they carried on chiefly an inland or coasting trade . The naval efforts even of Venice and Genoa ...
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