Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 359 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... Major Peddie arrives at Kakundy - His Death - Captain Campbell advances into the Foulah Territory - Obliged to return - His Death - Gray - Laing - Ritchie and Lyon - Death of Ritchie ...... 121 CHAPTER XII . DENHAM AND CLAPPERTON ...
... Major Peddie arrives at Kakundy - His Death - Captain Campbell advances into the Foulah Territory - Obliged to return - His Death - Gray - Laing - Ritchie and Lyon - Death of Ritchie ...... 121 CHAPTER XII . DENHAM AND CLAPPERTON ...
Pàgina 26
... Major Rennel cannot fully compre- hend , he forbears to treat . He follows the direction of the interior , from the Garamantes , beyond whom were Ethio- pians dwelling in caves , and running so swiftly that the former people were ...
... Major Rennel cannot fully compre- hend , he forbears to treat . He follows the direction of the interior , from the Garamantes , beyond whom were Ethio- pians dwelling in caves , and running so swiftly that the former people were ...
Pàgina 32
... Major Rennel urges , that , immense as this voyage was , it was entirely along a coast of which the navigators never required to lose sight even for a day ; that their small barks were well equipped , and better fitted than ours for ...
... Major Rennel urges , that , immense as this voyage was , it was entirely along a coast of which the navigators never required to lose sight even for a day ; that their small barks were well equipped , and better fitted than ours for ...
Pàgina 33
... Major Rennel conceives it to be the Niger of Park , and the city to be Timbuctoo ; but since the late discoveries of Denham and Clapperton , it has appeared more probable that the stream was the Yeou or river of Bornou . The distance ...
... Major Rennel conceives it to be the Niger of Park , and the city to be Timbuctoo ; but since the late discoveries of Denham and Clapperton , it has appeared more probable that the stream was the Yeou or river of Bornou . The distance ...
Pàgina 41
... Major Denham , we find this called the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms another kingdom , on whose power and extent the Arabian writers largely dilate . The sovereign is said to have a very numerous train of ...
... Major Denham , we find this called the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms another kingdom , on whose power and extent the Arabian writers largely dilate . The sovereign is said to have a very numerous train of ...
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