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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Pàgina 19
... hills , continually shift- ing , and leaving no marks to guide his course . Every breeze is filled with dust , which enters the mouth and nostrils , and penetrates between the clothes and skin . Sometimes the sand drives along in clouds ...
... hills , continually shift- ing , and leaving no marks to guide his course . Every breeze is filled with dust , which enters the mouth and nostrils , and penetrates between the clothes and skin . Sometimes the sand drives along in clouds ...
Pàgina 33
... Hills of salt arose , out of which the natives constructed their houses without any fear of their melting beneath a shower , in a region where rain was unknown . The land became almost a desert , and was filled with such multitudes of ...
... Hills of salt arose , out of which the natives constructed their houses without any fear of their melting beneath a shower , in a region where rain was unknown . The land became almost a desert , and was filled with such multitudes of ...
Pàgina 34
... hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbour- hood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost resigned to wild ...
... hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbour- hood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost resigned to wild ...
Pàgina 61
... hills of sand . " In ten days he came to Abu Latin , a large commercial town , crowded with merchants from va- rious quarters of the continent . The manners of the people , as is indeed too common in the scenes of in- land traffic ...
... hills of sand . " In ten days he came to Abu Latin , a large commercial town , crowded with merchants from va- rious quarters of the continent . The manners of the people , as is indeed too common in the scenes of in- land traffic ...
Pàgina 84
... 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 English , the sight of whom seemed to . inspire dissatisfaction ; they grinned ...
... 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 English , the sight of whom seemed to . inspire dissatisfaction ; they grinned ...
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