Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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... banks , has greatly extended our knowledge of Interior Africa in general . Our colonial possessions in that continent have undergone great vicissitudes , par- ticularly in the south , through the repeated irruptions of the Caffres , and ...
... banks , has greatly extended our knowledge of Interior Africa in general . Our colonial possessions in that continent have undergone great vicissitudes , par- ticularly in the south , through the repeated irruptions of the Caffres , and ...
Pàgina 20
... banks and lay the adjoining country under water , or at least afford the means of artificial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that rapid growth of all vegetable substances , which characterize , in a ...
... banks and lay the adjoining country under water , or at least afford the means of artificial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that rapid growth of all vegetable substances , which characterize , in a ...
Pàgina 31
... banks rose " the hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbourhood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Nasamones , in a region almost ...
... banks rose " the hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbourhood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Nasamones , in a region almost ...
Pàgina 34
... banks of the Thermodon . They did not , like these last , positively exterminate or expel the male sex from their confines ; but , reserving to them- selves the cares of war and government , employed their lords in keeping the house ...
... banks of the Thermodon . They did not , like these last , positively exterminate or expel the male sex from their confines ; but , reserving to them- selves the cares of war and government , employed their lords in keeping the house ...
Pàgina 35
... banks , and spread like a sea over Lower Egypt . Some of the hypotheses formed to ac- count for this inundation deserve to be noticed : The most prevalent opinion ascribed it to the Etesian winds , blowing from the north periodically ...
... banks , and spread like a sea over Lower Egypt . Some of the hypotheses formed to ac- count for this inundation deserve to be noticed : The most prevalent opinion ascribed it to the Etesian winds , blowing from the north periodically ...
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