Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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... principal contributor in that branch of science to the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . The present work , having for its main object the History of Discovery and Adventure , does not include the countries on the ...
... principal contributor in that branch of science to the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . The present work , having for its main object the History of Discovery and Adventure , does not include the countries on the ...
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... principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that rapid growth of all vegetable substances , which characterize , in a peculiar manner , every tropical climate . It is to the streams , which descend from the lofty precipices and eter ...
... principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that rapid growth of all vegetable substances , which characterize , in a peculiar manner , every tropical climate . It is to the streams , which descend from the lofty precipices and eter ...
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... principal food of several nations . Various flowering bushes , too , of the most delicate tints , rising in wild and spontaneous beauty , embellish the precincts of the waste . Thus , when first approached , and before vegetable nature ...
... principal food of several nations . Various flowering bushes , too , of the most delicate tints , rising in wild and spontaneous beauty , embellish the precincts of the waste . Thus , when first approached , and before vegetable nature ...
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... principal vessel was stranded upon one of those dan- gerous sand - banks which abound on the coast . The crew were so fortunate , however , as to convey ashore not only the cargo but the timbers , out of which Eudoxus , with a zeal that ...
... principal vessel was stranded upon one of those dan- gerous sand - banks which abound on the coast . The crew were so fortunate , however , as to convey ashore not only the cargo but the timbers , out of which Eudoxus , with a zeal that ...
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... principal of which is that of the Quillimane , —a conclusion which necessarily carries the situation of Rhapta southward to Quiloa . Ptolemy , who wrote probably a century later , gives the more remote position of Prasum as a promontory ...
... principal of which is that of the Quillimane , —a conclusion which necessarily carries the situation of Rhapta southward to Quiloa . Ptolemy , who wrote probably a century later , gives the more remote position of Prasum as a promontory ...
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