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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... kind was celebrated by the virgins of the latter tribe , when their fair hands were employed in throwing stones against each other with such fury that usually some of them were left dead on the spot . The fate of these sufferers was ...
... kind was celebrated by the virgins of the latter tribe , when their fair hands were employed in throwing stones against each other with such fury that usually some of them were left dead on the spot . The fate of these sufferers was ...
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... kind as those already described . " Colonel Silvertop , in an interesting memoir on the Lacus- trine Basins of Baza and Alhama , in the New Edinburgh Phi- losophical Journal , vol . ix . , gives an account of a subterranean village ...
... kind as those already described . " Colonel Silvertop , in an interesting memoir on the Lacus- trine Basins of Baza and Alhama , in the New Edinburgh Phi- losophical Journal , vol . ix . , gives an account of a subterranean village ...
Pàgina 464
... kind , almost restricted to particular species , must in like manner be characteristic of special localities . The entomological charac- ters of the southern shores of Europe strongly exhibit their geographical approach to the adjoining ...
... kind , almost restricted to particular species , must in like manner be characteristic of special localities . The entomological charac- ters of the southern shores of Europe strongly exhibit their geographical approach to the adjoining ...
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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