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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... considerably the limits to which the volumes of the EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY were meant to be confined . Owing to the vast accession of new matter in the present edition , a still farther extension has become indispensable ; but in ...
... considerably the limits to which the volumes of the EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY were meant to be confined . Owing to the vast accession of new matter in the present edition , a still farther extension has become indispensable ; but in ...
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... considerable navigation along the western coast of the Red Sea , which , holding the continent to be bounded by the Nile , they accounted scarcely African ; but upon this subject we must follow modern ideas . Ptolemy Euergetes seems to ...
... considerable navigation along the western coast of the Red Sea , which , holding the continent to be bounded by the Nile , they accounted scarcely African ; but upon this subject we must follow modern ideas . Ptolemy Euergetes seems to ...
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... considerable space ; but when he saw the Atlantic waves beating against the dreary shore of the Sahara , that scene of frequent and hopeless shipwreck , it probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the ...
... considerable space ; but when he saw the Atlantic waves beating against the dreary shore of the Sahara , that scene of frequent and hopeless shipwreck , it probably appeared to him that any ordinary form of death was preferable to the ...
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... considerable band of volunteers , and was enabled to equip amply and even splendidly two vessels , furnished with medical men and artisans of various descriptions , and even enlivened by a band of youthful musicians . With this array he ...
... considerable band of volunteers , and was enabled to equip amply and even splendidly two vessels , furnished with medical men and artisans of various descriptions , and even enlivened by a band of youthful musicians . With this array he ...
Pàgina 61
... considerable distance in the interior , and undertook to guide thither a mission , which they pledged themselves , within a stipulated period , to lead back in safety . As the natives meantime passed and repassed on the most intimate ...
... considerable distance in the interior , and undertook to guide thither a mission , which they pledged themselves , within a stipulated period , to lead back in safety . As the natives meantime passed and repassed on the most intimate ...
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