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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... length been disclosed , having been accompanied with arduous labours , and achieved in the face of the most formidable obstacles , presents a continued succession of striking incidents , as well as of new and remarkable objects : and ...
... length been disclosed , having been accompanied with arduous labours , and achieved in the face of the most formidable obstacles , presents a continued succession of striking incidents , as well as of new and remarkable objects : and ...
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... length , cover a much greater surface , and thus create ferti- lity in the more limited plains which intervene between the mountains and the ocean . But the largest of the African rivers , directing their course through a vast extent of ...
... length , cover a much greater surface , and thus create ferti- lity in the more limited plains which intervene between the mountains and the ocean . But the largest of the African rivers , directing their course through a vast extent of ...
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... cuous and peculiar characteristics of African zoology . The subject is treated of at greater length in a subsequent part of this volume . roar . Yet both his courage and fierceness have , B 2 NATURAL FEATURES OF AFRICA . 17.
... cuous and peculiar characteristics of African zoology . The subject is treated of at greater length in a subsequent part of this volume . roar . Yet both his courage and fierceness have , B 2 NATURAL FEATURES OF AFRICA . 17.
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... length , it displays in every particular a deformed resemblance to the lord of the creation . It seems even to make a nearer ap- proach than any other animal to the exercise of reason . It has been taught to make its own bed , to ...
... length , it displays in every particular a deformed resemblance to the lord of the creation . It seems even to make a nearer ap- proach than any other animal to the exercise of reason . It has been taught to make its own bed , to ...
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... length included in the extended dominion of Rome Yet , though all Mediterranean Africa thus merged into a province of the Roman world , it was still an opulent and enlightened one ; boasting equally with others its sages , its saints ...
... length included in the extended dominion of Rome Yet , though all Mediterranean Africa thus merged into a province of the Roman world , it was still an opulent and enlightened one ; boasting equally with others its sages , its saints ...
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