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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... capital ; and fine re- mains of Grecian architecture still attest the fact of this city having been a great and civilized metropo- lis . Every ancient description , however , represents the native inhabitants of these shores as existing ...
... capital ; and fine re- mains of Grecian architecture still attest the fact of this city having been a great and civilized metropo- lis . Every ancient description , however , represents the native inhabitants of these shores as existing ...
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... capital , Fez , became a distinguished school of learning . Their love of im- provement reached even the most distant regions . They introduced the camel , which , though a native of the sandy wastes of Arabia , was equally adapted 55 ...
... capital , Fez , became a distinguished school of learning . Their love of im- provement reached even the most distant regions . They introduced the camel , which , though a native of the sandy wastes of Arabia , was equally adapted 55 ...
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... capital of an empire which comprehends Ghana and all the neigh- bouring countries . Indeed , in an official document communicated by Major Denham , we find this call- ed the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms ...
... capital of an empire which comprehends Ghana and all the neigh- bouring countries . Indeed , in an official document communicated by Major Denham , we find this call- ed the empire of Takror . Kuku , to the eastward of Ghana , forms ...
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... capital . What were the precise expectations from an intercourse with this personage does not fully appear ; but it seems to have been thoroughly rooted in the minds of the Portuguese , that they would be raised to a matchless height of ...
... capital . What were the precise expectations from an intercourse with this personage does not fully appear ; but it seems to have been thoroughly rooted in the minds of the Portuguese , that they would be raised to a matchless height of ...
Pàgina 70
... capital of their possessions in this conti- nent . Pushing onward to Benin , they received a curious account of an embassy said to be sent , at the accession of every new prince , to the court of a sovereign called Ogane , residing ...
... capital of their possessions in this conti- nent . Pushing onward to Benin , they received a curious account of an embassy said to be sent , at the accession of every new prince , to the court of a sovereign called Ogane , residing ...
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