Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 359 pàgines |
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... interior waste . Meantime , although these causes prevented the civiliza- tion , and even the knowledge of the ancients , from ever penetrating deeply beyond the Mediterranean border , yet between it and the measureless Desert there ...
... interior waste . Meantime , although these causes prevented the civiliza- tion , and even the knowledge of the ancients , from ever penetrating deeply beyond the Mediterranean border , yet between it and the measureless Desert there ...
Pàgina 26
... interior , from the Garamantes , beyond whom were Ethio- pians dwelling in caves , and running so swiftly that the former people were obliged to hunt them in chariots , —a proceeding very unsuitable to the meek character elsewhere ...
... interior , from the Garamantes , beyond whom were Ethio- pians dwelling in caves , and running so swiftly that the former people were obliged to hunt them in chariots , —a proceeding very unsuitable to the meek character elsewhere ...
Pàgina 29
... interior and tropical regions , was men- tioned and strongly supported by Agatharchides , who wrote a learned work on the Red Sea ; which , however , was far from attaining the favourable reception that it merited . The name of Ethiopia ...
... interior and tropical regions , was men- tioned and strongly supported by Agatharchides , who wrote a learned work on the Red Sea ; which , however , was far from attaining the favourable reception that it merited . The name of Ethiopia ...
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... interior of this continent . They passed first the region inhabited by man ; then that which was tenanted by wild beasts ; lastly , they reached the immeasurable sandy waste . Having laid in a good stock of water and provi- sions , they ...
... interior of this continent . They passed first the region inhabited by man ; then that which was tenanted by wild beasts ; lastly , they reached the immeasurable sandy waste . Having laid in a good stock of water and provi- sions , they ...
Pàgina 40
... interior countries , to ob- tain a supply of gold and slaves ; and , amid the sanguinary disputes which arose among the descendants of the pro- phet , many , whose ill fortune exposed them to the enmity of successful rivals , sought ...
... interior countries , to ob- tain a supply of gold and slaves ; and , amid the sanguinary disputes which arose among the descendants of the pro- phet , many , whose ill fortune exposed them to the enmity of successful rivals , sought ...
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