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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Pàgina 13
... Races - Mohammedan Converts- European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany Dis- trict - Sierra Leone - Fernando Po - Proposed Settlements on the Niger - Liberia - Early Difficulties - Present Condition of the Colony ...
... Races - Mohammedan Converts- European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany Dis- trict - Sierra Leone - Fernando Po - Proposed Settlements on the Niger - Liberia - Early Difficulties - Present Condition of the Colony ...
Pàgina 23
... race of amphibious animals of monstrous shape and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not strictly amphibious , slowly traverses marshes and swampy grounds , and almost equals the elephant in strength and ...
... race of amphibious animals of monstrous shape and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not strictly amphibious , slowly traverses marshes and swampy grounds , and almost equals the elephant in strength and ...
Pàgina 25
... race , which in our climate is generally harmless , presents there many singular and even formi- dable characteristics . The flying tribes in particular , through the action of the sun on the swampy land , rise up in terrible and ...
... race , which in our climate is generally harmless , presents there many singular and even formi- dable characteristics . The flying tribes in particular , through the action of the sun on the swampy land , rise up in terrible and ...
Pàgina 26
... races are the termites or white ants , which display , on a greater scale , the arts and social organization for which their species are so famed in Europe . They cover the plains with their conical huts from ten to twelve feet in ...
... races are the termites or white ants , which display , on a greater scale , the arts and social organization for which their species are so famed in Europe . They cover the plains with their conical huts from ten to twelve feet in ...
Pàgina 31
... race . Farther to the south the soil no longer afforded food even to these fierce tenants ; there was not the trunk of a tree nor a drop of water ; total silence and desolation reigned . Such is the general picture Herodotus draws of ...
... race . Farther to the south the soil no longer afforded food even to these fierce tenants ; there was not the trunk of a tree nor a drop of water ; total silence and desolation reigned . Such is the general picture Herodotus draws of ...
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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 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1846 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1836 |
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