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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... traveller in parched and boundless de- serts . In the former they had less to endure from that almost total absence of human life which ren- ders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to ex- perience in the latter from the fierce ...
... traveller in parched and boundless de- serts . In the former they had less to endure from that almost total absence of human life which ren- ders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to ex- perience in the latter from the fierce ...
Pàgina viii
... TRAVELLERS . Horneman - Nicholls - Roentgen - Adams - Riley CHAPTER XI . GOVERNMENT EXPEDITIONS . 108 Great Expedition planned under Tuckey and Peddie - Captain Tuckey reaches the Congo - Difficulties encountered - Great Sickness ...
... TRAVELLERS . Horneman - Nicholls - Roentgen - Adams - Riley CHAPTER XI . GOVERNMENT EXPEDITIONS . 108 Great Expedition planned under Tuckey and Peddie - Captain Tuckey reaches the Congo - Difficulties encountered - Great Sickness ...
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... travellers who have sunk under famine , thirst , and fatigue ; and that the sand , which continually blows , has accumulated above them . Travel- lers over these tracts of shingle have been impressed with This the idea of their being ...
... travellers who have sunk under famine , thirst , and fatigue ; and that the sand , which continually blows , has accumulated above them . Travel- lers over these tracts of shingle have been impressed with This the idea of their being ...
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... travellers , who were on the point of perishing , have been befriended and saved by absolute strangers , and even by enemies . These varieties of nature and of character , these alterna- tions of wildness and of beauty , of lawless ...
... travellers , who were on the point of perishing , have been befriended and saved by absolute strangers , and even by enemies . These varieties of nature and of character , these alterna- tions of wildness and of beauty , of lawless ...
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... travellers even now find that country co- vered with magnificent monuments , erected at an era when the faintest dawn of ... traveller found himself among wild and wandering tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most ...
... travellers even now find that country co- vered with magnificent monuments , erected at an era when the faintest dawn of ... traveller found himself among wild and wandering tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most ...
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