Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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... frequent and hopeless shipwreck , it probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the one which here menaced him . He returned and presented himself before Xerxes , giving a doleful description of the hard ...
... frequent and hopeless shipwreck , it probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the one which here menaced him . He returned and presented himself before Xerxes , giving a doleful description of the hard ...
Pàgina 42
... frequently occasioned in such countries by the practice of setting fire to the grass at the end of autumn . Next appeared an island in a bay , where they found a most singular race , bearing the human form indeed , but covered with ...
... frequently occasioned in such countries by the practice of setting fire to the grass at the end of autumn . Next appeared an island in a bay , where they found a most singular race , bearing the human form indeed , but covered with ...
Pàgina 70
... frequent occurrence in those danger- ous and distant services ; but how it arose in this case , or who was to blame , was never duly investigated . The crew are said to have been unanimous in representing the conduct of their leader as ...
... frequent occurrence in those danger- ous and distant services ; but how it arose in this case , or who was to blame , was never duly investigated . The crew are said to have been unanimous in representing the conduct of their leader as ...
Pàgina 77
... frequently obliged to strip naked and walk through the water . They were rather rudely received by the only tenants of those upper tracts , the crocodiles and river- horses , " ill pleased , or unacquainted with any companions in these ...
... frequently obliged to strip naked and walk through the water . They were rather rudely received by the only tenants of those upper tracts , the crocodiles and river- horses , " ill pleased , or unacquainted with any companions in these ...
Pàgina 121
... frequent ; the kings drove a hard bargain for presents ; and at one place the women , with immense labour , had emptied all the wells , that they might derive an advantage from selling the water . Sub- mitting quietly to these little ...
... frequent ; the kings drove a hard bargain for presents ; and at one place the women , with immense labour , had emptied all the wells , that they might derive an advantage from selling the water . Sub- mitting quietly to these little ...
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