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 pāgines |
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Pāgina 13
... Races -Mohammedan Converts - European Colonization Cape of Good Hope - Albany District - Sierra Leone - Fernando Po Liberia - Early Difficulties - Present prosperous Condition of the Colony , ............ ― ... 368 CHAPTER XVIII ...
... Races -Mohammedan Converts - European Colonization Cape of Good Hope - Albany District - Sierra Leone - Fernando Po Liberia - Early Difficulties - Present prosperous Condition of the Colony , ............ ― ... 368 CHAPTER XVIII ...
Pāgina 24
... race of amphibious animals of monstrous form and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not strictly amphibious , slowly traverses HIPPOPOTAMUS - CROCODILE SERPENTS . 25 25 marshes and swampy 24 NATURAL FEATURES ...
... race of amphibious animals of monstrous form and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not strictly amphibious , slowly traverses HIPPOPOTAMUS - CROCODILE SERPENTS . 25 25 marshes and swampy 24 NATURAL FEATURES ...
Pāgina 27
... race , which in our climate is generally harmless , presents here many singular and even formidable characteristics . The flying tribes in particular , through the action of the sun on the swampy forests , rise up in terrible and ...
... race , which in our climate is generally harmless , presents here many singular and even formidable characteristics . The flying tribes in particular , through the action of the sun on the swampy forests , rise up in terrible and ...
Pāgina 28
... races are the termites or white ants , which display , on a greater scale , the arts and social organization for which their species are so famed in Europe . They cover the plains with their conical huts from ten to twelve feet in ...
... races are the termites or white ants , which display , on a greater scale , the arts and social organization for which their species are so famed in Europe . They cover the plains with their conical huts from ten to twelve feet in ...
Pāgina 33
... race . Farther to the south the soil no longer afforded food even to these wild tenants ; -there was not the trunk of a tree nor a drop of water ; total silence and desolation reigned . Such is the general picture Herodotus draws of ...
... race . Farther to the south the soil no longer afforded food even to these wild tenants ; -there was not the trunk of a tree nor a drop of water ; total silence and desolation reigned . Such is the general picture Herodotus draws of ...
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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualitzaciķ completa - 1830 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualitzaciķ completa - 1846 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualitzaciķ completa - 1836 |
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