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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... districts . In the large and broad rivers of this continent , and through the immense forests which overshadow them , a race of amphibious animals of monstrous shape and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not ...
... districts . In the large and broad rivers of this continent , and through the immense forests which overshadow them , a race of amphibious animals of monstrous shape and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not ...
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... districts now surveyed form the whole of Africa respecting which the Greeks had obtained any precise and determinate knowledge . They comprised a wide ex- tent of shore , but extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each ...
... districts now surveyed form the whole of Africa respecting which the Greeks had obtained any precise and determinate knowledge . They comprised a wide ex- tent of shore , but extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each ...
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... district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was unknown in the vast interior of their continent . They passed first the region inhabited by man ...
... district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was unknown in the vast interior of their continent . They passed first the region inhabited by man ...
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... district said to have contained gold , the commodity for which African commerce was so much prized . This region is described as intersected and overflowed during the rainy season by the branches of the Nile ( of the Negroes , or Niger ) ...
... district said to have contained gold , the commodity for which African commerce was so much prized . This region is described as intersected and overflowed during the rainy season by the branches of the Nile ( of the Negroes , or Niger ) ...
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... district . Waiting upon his majesty , and being informed that a present was on its way to him , he feasted his imagination on the idea of some rich dress or golden ornament ; instead of which , the whole consisted of a crust of bread ...
... district . Waiting upon his majesty , and being informed that a present was on its way to him , he feasted his imagination on the idea of some rich dress or golden ornament ; instead of which , the whole consisted of a crust of bread ...
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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1830 |
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