Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and Zoology, Volum 1844Oliver & Boyd, 1899 - 472 pàgines |
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... carried on trade in a very peculiar manner . This wild and timid race would not approach or hold parley with those adventurers , who , on drawing near to the shore , kindled a fire , uttered loud cries , and laid on the sand a certain ...
... carried on trade in a very peculiar manner . This wild and timid race would not approach or hold parley with those adventurers , who , on drawing near to the shore , kindled a fire , uttered loud cries , and laid on the sand a certain ...
Pàgina 37
... carried to so singular a pitch , that if the king lost a leg or an arm , each of his courtiers pre- sently severed from himself the same member . The priests , however , whose influence in this realm of superstition was always paramount ...
... carried to so singular a pitch , that if the king lost a leg or an arm , each of his courtiers pre- sently severed from himself the same member . The priests , however , whose influence in this realm of superstition was always paramount ...
Pàgina 51
... carried off , and sold to the merchants of Northern Africa , who conveyed them to all parts of the eastern world . The same cruel and iniquitous traffic is carried on in a similar manner , and with unabated activity , at the present day ...
... carried off , and sold to the merchants of Northern Africa , who conveyed them to all parts of the eastern world . The same cruel and iniquitous traffic is carried on in a similar manner , and with unabated activity , at the present day ...
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afterwards amid ancient animals appeared Arabs arrived attack Badagry banks beautiful Benin birds Boo Khalloom Bornou Boussa Caffres called camels canoe Cape Captain caravan cattle chief chiefly Clapperton coast colony colour continent covered Desert Devil's Peak district earth Europe European expedition extending extremely Eyeo farther feet Fellatas female Fezzan Gambia genus gneiss gold granite ground head Herodotus hills Hope horse immense inhabitants interior island journey king kingdom lake Lake Tchad land Lander length Major Denham miles Morocco mountains natives nearly negro Niger Nubia observed occur ocean Park party passed peculiar plain present prince principal proceeded quadrupeds race reached received regions river rocks Rüppell salt sand sandstone scarcely seen Senegal sent sheik shores Sierra Leone slaves soon Southern Africa species stream sultan Timbuctoo tion town traveller trees tribes Tripoli trona Tuaricks vessel village visited voyage Wawa whole wild