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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... JOURNEY_LAING_CAILLIE— DOUVILLE . Objects of this Journey — Departure from Badagry - Death of Pearce and of Morrison - Kingdom of Yarriba - Eyeo - Kiama - Wawa -Boussa - Particulars respecting Park - Nyffe - Koolfu -
... JOURNEY_LAING_CAILLIE— DOUVILLE . Objects of this Journey — Departure from Badagry - Death of Pearce and of Morrison - Kingdom of Yarriba - Eyeo - Kiama - Wawa -Boussa - Particulars respecting Park - Nyffe - Koolfu -
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... kingdoms and re- gions under their varied aspects , it may be inte- resting to take a rapid survey of this continent in its original state , as it came from the hands of Na- ture . Though immense , and abounding even with the most ...
... kingdoms and re- gions under their varied aspects , it may be inte- resting to take a rapid survey of this continent in its original state , as it came from the hands of Na- ture . Though immense , and abounding even with the most ...
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... kingdoms along their border , the soil is most profusely watered , and , under the influence of a tropical sun , produces , perhaps beyond any other part of the world , that luxuriant growth , and those gigantic vegetable forms , which ...
... kingdoms along their border , the soil is most profusely watered , and , under the influence of a tropical sun , produces , perhaps beyond any other part of the world , that luxuriant growth , and those gigantic vegetable forms , which ...
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... kingdom ; and when Greece was un- der the tumultuary sway of a multitude of petty chieftains , Homer already celebrates the Hundred Gates of Thebes , and the mighty hosts which in war- like array issued from them to battle . Egypt was ...
... kingdom ; and when Greece was un- der the tumultuary sway of a multitude of petty chieftains , Homer already celebrates the Hundred Gates of Thebes , and the mighty hosts which in war- like array issued from them to battle . Egypt was ...
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... kingdoms in that part of the con- tinent , which Europeans vainly sought to reach till they were recently explored by our enterprising countrymen . Of these states Ghana was the most flourishing , forming the great market for gold , in ...
... kingdoms in that part of the con- tinent , which Europeans vainly sought to reach till they were recently explored by our enterprising countrymen . Of these states Ghana was the most flourishing , forming the great market for gold , in ...
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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 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1846 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1836 |
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amid animal appeared Arabs arrived Badagry banks Barca Gana beautiful Benin bird Boo Khalloom borders Bornou Boussa caboceer Caillié called camels canoe Cape capital Captain caravan chief Clapperton coast colour continued coral covered Desert Devil's Peak district earth English Europe European expedition extending Eyeo farther feet Fellatas females Fezzan frequently Gambia genus gneiss gold granite ground head hills Hope horse inhabitants interior island Jenne journey Kiama king kingdom lake Lake Tchad land Lander Lattakoo length limestone Major Denham miles Morocco mountains Mourzouk native nearly negro Niger observed occur Park party passed peculiar plain present prince QUADRUPEDS quartz race reached received regions river rocks route salt sand sandstone scarcely seen Sego Senegal sent sheik shores Sierra Leone slaves soon species stream sultan Timbuctoo tion town traveller trees tribe Tripoli trona Tuaricks village voyage Wawa whole wild