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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... Wild Dogs - Civets - Lion - Panther and Leopard -Lynxes - Squirrels - Marmots - Sand Mole - Gerboa - Rats and Mice -Dormice - Porcupines - Hares and Rabbits - Cape Ant - eater - Manis -Elephant - Rhinoceros - Ethiopian Hog ...
... Wild Dogs - Civets - Lion - Panther and Leopard -Lynxes - Squirrels - Marmots - Sand Mole - Gerboa - Rats and Mice -Dormice - Porcupines - Hares and Rabbits - Cape Ant - eater - Manis -Elephant - Rhinoceros - Ethiopian Hog ...
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... wild and spontaneous beau- ty , embellish the precincts of the waste . Thus the Desert , in its first approaches , and before vegetable life begins to ex- pire , does not assume its sternest character , but wears even a peculiarly ...
... wild and spontaneous beau- ty , embellish the precincts of the waste . Thus the Desert , in its first approaches , and before vegetable life begins to ex- pire , does not assume its sternest character , but wears even a peculiarly ...
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... wild beasts , or even the more desolating career of human warfare . In vain do the despairing inhabitants seek with fire and other means to arrest their progress ; the dense and irresistible mass continues to move onward , and soon ...
... wild beasts , or even the more desolating career of human warfare . In vain do the despairing inhabitants seek with fire and other means to arrest their progress ; the dense and irresistible mass continues to move onward , and soon ...
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... wild and wandering tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most repulsive forms . On his advancing some what farther still , there appeared a barrier vast and awful -endless plains of moving sand , without a shrub , a ...
... wild and wandering tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most repulsive forms . On his advancing some what farther still , there appeared a barrier vast and awful -endless plains of moving sand , without a shrub , a ...
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... wild beasts , as to be con . sidered their proper inheritance , and scarcely disputed with them by the human race . Farther to the south , the soil no longer afforded food even to these wild tenants ; there was not the trunk of a tree ...
... wild beasts , as to be con . sidered their proper inheritance , and scarcely disputed with them by the human race . Farther to the south , the soil no longer afforded food even to these wild tenants ; there was not the trunk of a tree ...
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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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