Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time : with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court, 1832 - 503 pàgines |
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... march along the bottom of the waters , or to swim on their surface . He is slow , ponderous , gentle ; yet when annoyed , either by design or accident , his wrath is terrible ; he rushes up from his watery retreat , and , by merely ...
... march along the bottom of the waters , or to swim on their surface . He is slow , ponderous , gentle ; yet when annoyed , either by design or accident , his wrath is terrible ; he rushes up from his watery retreat , and , by merely ...
Pàgina 84
... march on , and are very bold . " At night , as they took their stand upon the hills , filling the air with confused cries , one great voice would exalt itself , and the rest were all hushed . " They mounted the trees to look at the ...
... march on , and are very bold . " At night , as they took their stand upon the hills , filling the air with confused cries , one great voice would exalt itself , and the rest were all hushed . " They mounted the trees to look at the ...
Pàgina 120
... March . He pass- ed next through Sampaka and Dalli , where he was received by the negro inhabitants with the usual kindness and hospitality of that race ; he was even induced to stop a day at Dalli , under promise of an escort ; but ...
... March . He pass- ed next through Sampaka and Dalli , where he was received by the negro inhabitants with the usual kindness and hospitality of that race ; he was even induced to stop a day at Dalli , under promise of an escort ; but ...
Pàgina 124
... march to attack the town . The troops , who ought to have defended the place , fled at the first onset , and nothing re- mained for the inhabitants but to abandon it , and escape from slaughter or slavery , the dreadful al- ternatives ...
... march to attack the town . The troops , who ought to have defended the place , fled at the first onset , and nothing re- mained for the inhabitants but to abandon it , and escape from slaughter or slavery , the dreadful al- ternatives ...
Pàgina 143
... March he arrived at the Cape Verd Islands ; and on the 28th reached Goree . There he provided himself with an officer and thirty - five soldiers , and with a large stock of asses from the islands , where the breed of these animals is ...
... March he arrived at the Cape Verd Islands ; and on the 28th reached Goree . There he provided himself with an officer and thirty - five soldiers , and with a large stock of asses from the islands , where the breed of these animals is ...
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