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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... Range of Moun- tains - Disastrous Expedition - War against the Mungas- Excursion to Loggun - Expedition against the La Salas- Biddoomahs - Clapperton's Journey into Houssa - Appear- ance of that Country - Kano - Sackatoo - Sultan Bello ...
... Range of Moun- tains - Disastrous Expedition - War against the Mungas- Excursion to Loggun - Expedition against the La Salas- Biddoomahs - Clapperton's Journey into Houssa - Appear- ance of that Country - Kano - Sackatoo - Sultan Bello ...
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... Range of the Thermometer at different Points - General Result of this Expedition , ..... .Page 230 CHAPTER XV . LAIRD AND OLDFIELD - ALLEN - DAVIDSON . Plan of Mr Laird's Expedition - Voyage to the Niger - Ascent to Eboe - Dreadful ...
... Range of the Thermometer at different Points - General Result of this Expedition , ..... .Page 230 CHAPTER XV . LAIRD AND OLDFIELD - ALLEN - DAVIDSON . Plan of Mr Laird's Expedition - Voyage to the Niger - Ascent to Eboe - Dreadful ...
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... range , which , distinguished by various local names , is most generally known under the poetical appellation of " The Mountains of the Moon . " Yet these ridges , besides being less gigantic than those of the other continents , labour ...
... range , which , distinguished by various local names , is most generally known under the poetical appellation of " The Mountains of the Moon . " Yet these ridges , besides being less gigantic than those of the other continents , labour ...
Pàgina 31
... range of Cyrene , the first object was the celebrated shrine of Ammon , dedicated to the Theban Jove , and to which the Greeks were wont to ascribe a higher pro- phetic power than even to their own Delphic oracle . This temple ...
... range of Cyrene , the first object was the celebrated shrine of Ammon , dedicated to the Theban Jove , and to which the Greeks were wont to ascribe a higher pro- phetic power than even to their own Delphic oracle . This temple ...
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... range of Atlas , whose head is said to remain for ever invisible and wrapped in clouds , and which the natives believe to be the pillar of heaven , —a creed adopted , or perhaps invented , by the Greeks and Romans . Herodotus here stops ...
... range of Atlas , whose head is said to remain for ever invisible and wrapped in clouds , and which the natives believe to be the pillar of heaven , —a creed adopted , or perhaps invented , by the Greeks and Romans . Herodotus here stops ...
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