Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. With Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, 1849 - 472 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... trees stand alone , but have their interstices filled up by numberless shrubs , canes , creeping and parasitical plants , which intersect and entwine with each other till they form a thick and impenetrable mass of underwood . To cut ...
... trees stand alone , but have their interstices filled up by numberless shrubs , canes , creeping and parasitical plants , which intersect and entwine with each other till they form a thick and impenetrable mass of underwood . To cut ...
Pàgina 31
... tree nor a drop of water ; total silence and desolation reigned . Such is the general picture Herodotus draws of this northern boundary of the great African desert , which must be acknowledged to be extremely accurate . In the tract ...
... tree nor a drop of water ; total silence and desolation reigned . Such is the general picture Herodotus draws of this northern boundary of the great African desert , which must be acknowledged to be extremely accurate . In the tract ...
Pàgina 37
... trees . Many sought shelter also in places which had no regular claim to be considered as human habitations . These were either cavities dug out of the rock , with an opening to the north for coolness ; or they were formed by twisting ...
... trees . Many sought shelter also in places which had no regular claim to be considered as human habitations . These were either cavities dug out of the rock , with an opening to the north for coolness ; or they were formed by twisting ...
Pàgina 40
... trees laden with agreeable fruit , and had begun to pluck , when there suddenly appeared a band of little black men , who seized and carried them off as captives . They were led along vast lakes and marshes to a town situated on a large ...
... trees laden with agreeable fruit , and had begun to pluck , when there suddenly appeared a band of little black men , who seized and carried them off as captives . They were led along vast lakes and marshes to a town situated on a large ...
Pàgina 52
... trees . Having joined a caravan , he came , after a journey of twenty - five days , to Thaghari , which some manuscripts make Tagaza , evidently the Tegazza of Leo , supposed by Major Rennell to be the modern Tisheet , containing the ...
... trees . Having joined a caravan , he came , after a journey of twenty - five days , to Thaghari , which some manuscripts make Tagaza , evidently the Tegazza of Leo , supposed by Major Rennell to be the modern Tisheet , containing the ...
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