Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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... manner afforded ample materials for a distinct volume ; and the same plan has been followed with re- spect to the extensive countries of Nubia and Abyssinia . So varied are the subjects introduced into this work , that , in order to do ...
... manner afforded ample materials for a distinct volume ; and the same plan has been followed with re- spect to the extensive countries of Nubia and Abyssinia . So varied are the subjects introduced into this work , that , in order to do ...
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... Manners of the Native Africans - Vermuyden - Stibbs , ..... ..Page 68 CHAPTER VI . FRENCH DISCOVERIES . French Settlement on the Senegal - Jannequin's Voyage- Voyages of Brue up the Senegal - Bambouk ; Gold Mines- Saugnier - Gum - trade ...
... Manners of the Native Africans - Vermuyden - Stibbs , ..... ..Page 68 CHAPTER VI . FRENCH DISCOVERIES . French Settlement on the Senegal - Jannequin's Voyage- Voyages of Brue up the Senegal - Bambouk ; Gold Mines- Saugnier - Gum - trade ...
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... manner , every tropical climate . It is to the streams , which descend from the lofty precipices and eter- nal snows of the Himmaleh , that the plains of Hindostan and China owe their amazing fruitfulness . Africa , too , has elevated ...
... manner , every tropical climate . It is to the streams , which descend from the lofty precipices and eter- nal snows of the Himmaleh , that the plains of Hindostan and China owe their amazing fruitfulness . Africa , too , has elevated ...
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... manner truly remarkable . The branches dropping down upon the watery bank , strike root and grow ; hence the original stem , spreading far- ther and farther , throws over the stream a species of natural arcade . Nor do these mighty ...
... manner truly remarkable . The branches dropping down upon the watery bank , strike root and grow ; hence the original stem , spreading far- ther and farther , throws over the stream a species of natural arcade . Nor do these mighty ...
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... manner , in the bosom of its wildest woods and mountains , there lurk , in many an unsuspected retreat , scenes of the most soft and pastoral beauty . Even amid its moral darkness there shine forth virtues which would do honour to human ...
... manner , in the bosom of its wildest woods and mountains , there lurk , in many an unsuspected retreat , scenes of the most soft and pastoral beauty . Even amid its moral darkness there shine forth virtues which would do honour to human ...
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