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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... shores , and to round her stormy capes , has tried the courage and hardi- hood of the greatest navigators . Could Africa cease to exist , great facilities would be afforded to the communica- tion between the other continents , and many ...
... shores , and to round her stormy capes , has tried the courage and hardi- hood of the greatest navigators . Could Africa cease to exist , great facilities would be afforded to the communica- tion between the other continents , and many ...
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... shores , Northern Africa held in their view no incon- siderable importance . This region , which is now covered with thick darkness , and left so far behind in all the arts and attainments which exalt and adorn human nature , had at ...
... shores , Northern Africa held in their view no incon- siderable importance . This region , which is now covered with thick darkness , and left so far behind in all the arts and attainments which exalt and adorn human nature , had at ...
Pàgina 30
... the native inha- bitants of these shores as existing in a state of the most extreme barbarity and wretchedness . They are classed by Diodorus and Strabo , according to the miserable food on 30 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
... the native inha- bitants of these shores as existing in a state of the most extreme barbarity and wretchedness . They are classed by Diodorus and Strabo , according to the miserable food on 30 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
Pàgina 43
... shores of the Red Sea , are exceedingly meager . It was otherwise , indeed , with the eastern coast of Africa on the Indian Ocean . The people of Southern Arabia , who were then actively employed in commerce and navigation , had not ...
... shores of the Red Sea , are exceedingly meager . It was otherwise , indeed , with the eastern coast of Africa on the Indian Ocean . The people of Southern Arabia , who were then actively employed in commerce and navigation , had not ...
Pàgina 47
... shores of the Black Sea the commodities of India , which had been con- veyed thither chiefly by caravans overland . Satisfied with the wealth and power to which they had been raised by this local and limited commerce , these celebrated ...
... shores of the Black Sea the commodities of India , which had been con- veyed thither chiefly by caravans overland . Satisfied with the wealth and power to which they had been raised by this local and limited commerce , these celebrated ...
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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 - 1832 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1832 |
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