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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... hands of nature . Though immense , and abounding even with the most striking and surprising contrasts , yet , on a general view , a certain uniformity , approaching almost to monotony , appears to pervade it . From one end to the other ...
... hands of nature . Though immense , and abounding even with the most striking and surprising contrasts , yet , on a general view , a certain uniformity , approaching almost to monotony , appears to pervade it . From one end to the other ...
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... hands , achieve what is beyond the single strength of the greater animals ; they burst with mighty inroad into the cities , and have even carried by storm fortified enclosures . The ele- phant roams in vast herds through the densely ...
... hands , achieve what is beyond the single strength of the greater animals ; they burst with mighty inroad into the cities , and have even carried by storm fortified enclosures . The ele- phant roams in vast herds through the densely ...
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... hands were employed in throwing stones against each other with such fury , that several were commonly left dead on the spot . The fate of these sufferers was peculiarly hard , since it was supposed to justify the most unfavour able ...
... hands were employed in throwing stones against each other with such fury , that several were commonly left dead on the spot . The fate of these sufferers was peculiarly hard , since it was supposed to justify the most unfavour able ...
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... hand , - —a statement which the historian himself rejects as impossible . Such is all the account transmitted to us of this extraordinary voyage , which has given rise to a learned and voluminous controversy . Rennel in his Geography of ...
... hand , - —a statement which the historian himself rejects as impossible . Such is all the account transmitted to us of this extraordinary voyage , which has given rise to a learned and voluminous controversy . Rennel in his Geography of ...
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... hands the unfortunate smith , to be converted into a mortal in any manner they might judge efficacious . After a short and unsuccessful argument , they had recourse to the above potent instrument of conversion ; yet Vulcan , deserted in ...
... hands the unfortunate smith , to be converted into a mortal in any manner they might judge efficacious . After a short and unsuccessful argument , they had recourse to the above potent instrument of conversion ; yet Vulcan , deserted in ...
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