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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... Mountains and Rivers - Vegetable Life - Animal Life - Social Aspect - Striking Contrasts which it presents CHAPTER II . KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA AMONG THE ANCIENTS . Page 13 Northern Africa well known - Obstacles opposed by the Desert - De ...
... Mountains and Rivers - Vegetable Life - Animal Life - Social Aspect - Striking Contrasts which it presents CHAPTER II . KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA AMONG THE ANCIENTS . Page 13 Northern Africa well known - Obstacles opposed by the Desert - De ...
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... Mountains - Disastrous Expedition - War against the Mungas - Ex- cursion to Loggun - Expedition against the La Salas - Biddoomahs- Clapperton's Journey into Houssa- Appearance of that Country- Kano - Sackatoo - Sultan Bello - Return of ...
... Mountains - Disastrous Expedition - War against the Mungas - Ex- cursion to Loggun - Expedition against the La Salas - Biddoomahs- Clapperton's Journey into Houssa- Appearance of that Country- Kano - Sackatoo - Sultan Bello - Return of ...
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... Mountains - Petrified Wood in the Desert - Horrid Conse- quences of the Slave - trade - Human Skeletons in the Desert - Natron and Salt Lakes - Desert of Bilma - Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave - On what Formation does the Sand of the ...
... Mountains - Petrified Wood in the Desert - Horrid Conse- quences of the Slave - trade - Human Skeletons in the Desert - Natron and Salt Lakes - Desert of Bilma - Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave - On what Formation does the Sand of the ...
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... Mountain - Devil's Peak - To what Class of Rocks do those of the Cape Peninsula belong ? -At what Period did the Cape Rocks rise above the Level of the Sea ? -Vegetables in- crusted with Calcareous Sand confounded with Coral , and ...
... Mountain - Devil's Peak - To what Class of Rocks do those of the Cape Peninsula belong ? -At what Period did the Cape Rocks rise above the Level of the Sea ? -Vegetables in- crusted with Calcareous Sand confounded with Coral , and ...
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... mountain - chains , which give rise to several rivers of great magnitude and most fertilizing influence . Atlas , along ... Mountains of the Moon . " Yet these chains , besides being not altogether so gigantic as those of the other con ...
... mountain - chains , which give rise to several rivers of great magnitude and most fertilizing influence . Atlas , along ... Mountains of the Moon . " Yet these chains , besides being not altogether so gigantic as those of the other con ...
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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1830 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1846 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1832 |
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