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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... savage tenants find their prey occasionally in man himself , as well as in the domestic animals which surround him ; and when the scent of human slaughter is wafted on the breeze , bands of hungry monsters hasten from every side to the ...
... savage tenants find their prey occasionally in man himself , as well as in the domestic animals which surround him ; and when the scent of human slaughter is wafted on the breeze , bands of hungry monsters hasten from every side to the ...
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... savage existence , excited in a somewhat pecu- liar degree the curiosity of the ancients ; to whom , how- ever , it always appeared dimly as through a cloud , and tinged with a certain fabulous and poetical colouring . Herodotus , the ...
... savage existence , excited in a somewhat pecu- liar degree the curiosity of the ancients ; to whom , how- ever , it always appeared dimly as through a cloud , and tinged with a certain fabulous and poetical colouring . Herodotus , the ...
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... savage life still extensively prevalent in pagan Africa . According to Diodorus , this veneration was carried to so singular a pitch , that if the king lost a leg or an arm , each of his courtiers presently severed from himself the same ...
... savage life still extensively prevalent in pagan Africa . According to Diodorus , this veneration was carried to so singular a pitch , that if the king lost a leg or an arm , each of his courtiers presently severed from himself the same ...
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... savage Ethio- pians , living in caves , and repelling every friendly overture . Proceeding three days along a desert coast , the navigators reached an island , which they named Cerne , situated in a recess of the sea , where they ...
... savage Ethio- pians , living in caves , and repelling every friendly overture . Proceeding three days along a desert coast , the navigators reached an island , which they named Cerne , situated in a recess of the sea , where they ...
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... savage natives , and made them view Christianity only as a gay and pompous pageant , in which it would be an amusement to join . The sacrament of baptism , to which the Catholics attach such pre - eminent importance , was chiefly ...
... savage natives , and made them view Christianity only as a gay and pompous pageant , in which it would be an amusement to join . The sacrament of baptism , to which the Catholics attach such pre - eminent importance , was chiefly ...
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