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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... frequently found their efforts checked , and their career arrested , by the operation of causes which , although equally powerful , were yet ex- tremely different in their nature . In the Northern Seas , they suffered from that dreadful ...
... frequently found their efforts checked , and their career arrested , by the operation of causes which , although equally powerful , were yet ex- tremely different in their nature . In the Northern Seas , they suffered from that dreadful ...
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... frequently the aggressor , not only with the view of protecting the fruits of the earth , but also in order to obtain the bony substance composing his tusks , which , under the name of ivory , forms one of the most valued articles of ...
... frequently the aggressor , not only with the view of protecting the fruits of the earth , but also in order to obtain the bony substance composing his tusks , which , under the name of ivory , forms one of the most valued articles of ...
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... and not very un- frequently lead to its extinction . Even a swarm of wild bees , in the solitary woods of Western Africa , has put a whole caravan to flight , wounding severely some of its members . But perhaps the most extraor-
... and not very un- frequently lead to its extinction . Even a swarm of wild bees , in the solitary woods of Western Africa , has put a whole caravan to flight , wounding severely some of its members . But perhaps the most extraor-
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... frequent and terrible shipwreck , it probably appear- ed to him that any ordinary form of death was pre- ferable to the one which here menaced him . He re- turned and presented himself before Xerxes , giving a doleful description of the ...
... frequent and terrible shipwreck , it probably appear- ed to him that any ordinary form of death was pre- ferable to the one which here menaced him . He re- turned and presented himself before Xerxes , giving a doleful description of the ...
Pàgina 48
... frequently occasioned in such countries by the prac- tice of setting fire to the grass at the end of au- tumn . 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 prac- tice of setting fire to the grass at the end of au- tumn . Next appeared an island in a bay , where they found a most singular race , bearing the human form indeed , but covered with ...
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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1830 |
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