Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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... directions , have sought to explore Africa ; and also to give a general view of the physical and social condition of that extensive continent at the present day . This quarter of the globe has afforded ampler scope than any other to ...
... directions , have sought to explore Africa ; and also to give a general view of the physical and social condition of that extensive continent at the present day . This quarter of the globe has afforded ampler scope than any other to ...
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... direction of their length , cover a much greater surface , and thus create fertility in the plains which intervene between their bases and the ocean . But the larger of the African rivers , directing their course through a vast extent ...
... direction of their length , cover a much greater surface , and thus create fertility in the plains which intervene between their bases and the ocean . But the larger of the African rivers , directing their course through a vast extent ...
Pàgina 40
... direction , and came at length to one of the oases or ver- dant islands which bespangle the Desert . Here they saw trees laden with agreeable fruit , and had begun to pluck , when there suddenly appeared a band of little black men , who ...
... direction , and came at length to one of the oases or ver- dant islands which bespangle the Desert . Here they saw trees laden with agreeable fruit , and had begun to pluck , when there suddenly appeared a band of little black men , who ...
Pàgina 43
... direction he should first proceed ; and an expedition to trace the upper course and fountain of * M. Heeren has lately attempted to prove that Hanno's voyage reached to the mouth of the Gambia , which is less by nearly a fifth than the ...
... direction he should first proceed ; and an expedition to trace the upper course and fountain of * M. Heeren has lately attempted to prove that Hanno's voyage reached to the mouth of the Gambia , which is less by nearly a fifth than the ...
Pàgina 44
... direction as inspired the idea that it might , by no vast circuit , lead round to the Straits of Gibraltar ; and to be the circumnavigator of Africa became from that moment the object to which his life was devoted . On his re- turn to ...
... direction as inspired the idea that it might , by no vast circuit , lead round to the Straits of Gibraltar ; and to be the circumnavigator of Africa became from that moment the object to which his life was devoted . On his re- turn to ...
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