Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, 1830 - 492 pàgines |
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... character of the people who occupy a great portion of the Libyan continent . In a word , while exploring these remote regions , they braved almost every species of danger , and passed through every variety of suffering , by which the ...
... character of the people who occupy a great portion of the Libyan continent . In a word , while exploring these remote regions , they braved almost every species of danger , and passed through every variety of suffering , by which the ...
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... Character - Super- stitions - War and Slavery - Amiable Features - Forms of Government - Foreign Races - Mohammedan Converts- European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany Dis- trict - Sierra Leone - Fernando Po - Proposed ...
... Character - Super- stitions - War and Slavery - Amiable Features - Forms of Government - Foreign Races - Mohammedan Converts- European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany Dis- trict - Sierra Leone - Fernando Po - Proposed ...
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... character , and also of immense extent . In order to obviate the extreme effects of the tropical sun , which produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has provided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy ...
... character , and also of immense extent . In order to obviate the extreme effects of the tropical sun , which produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has provided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy ...
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... approached , and before vegetable nature begins to expire , instead of assuming a stern character , it wears rather a pleasing and smiling aspect . The animal world * in Africa changes equally its nature NATURAL FEATURES OF AFRICA . 21.
... approached , and before vegetable nature begins to expire , instead of assuming a stern character , it wears rather a pleasing and smiling aspect . The animal world * in Africa changes equally its nature NATURAL FEATURES OF AFRICA . 21.
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... character , these alternations of wildness and of beauty , of lawless violence and of the most generous kindness , render the progress of the European through this continent more interesting and eventful , more diversified by striking ...
... character , these alternations of wildness and of beauty , of lawless violence and of the most generous kindness , render the progress of the European through this continent more interesting and eventful , more diversified by striking ...
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