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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... tribe , presents a most extraordinary spectacle , being then swelled to many times the amount of her natural dimensions ; and when the critical period arrives , instead of a progeny of two or three , she produces as many thousands ...
... tribe , presents a most extraordinary spectacle , being then swelled to many times the amount of her natural dimensions ; and when the critical period arrives , instead of a progeny of two or three , she produces as many thousands ...
Pàgina 23
... tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most repulsive forms . On his advancing some what farther still , there appeared a barrier vast and awful -endless plains of moving sand , without a shrub , a blade of grass , or ...
... tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most repulsive forms . On his advancing some what farther still , there appeared a barrier vast and awful -endless plains of moving sand , without a shrub , a blade of grass , or ...
Pàgina 25
... tribe , suffering once under a severe drought , had been so ill informed as to proceed southward in hope of finding water , where , being involved in those vast and burning deserts , they entirely perished , and their place was taken by ...
... tribe , suffering once under a severe drought , had been so ill informed as to proceed southward in hope of finding water , where , being involved in those vast and burning deserts , they entirely perished , and their place was taken by ...
Pàgina 26
... tribe of the Auses , called Maxyes , who cultivated the ground ; and he is now on the border of the Carthaginian territory , of which , for reasons that Major Rennel cannot fully compre- hend , he forbears to treat . He follows the ...
... tribe of the Auses , called Maxyes , who cultivated the ground ; and he is now on the border of the Carthaginian territory , of which , for reasons that Major Rennel cannot fully compre- hend , he forbears to treat . He follows the ...
Pàgina 28
... tribes , as bounded by an extensive uniform plain resembling the ocean , covered with piles of sand of which the termination was unknown , and which , instead of any object that could cheer the eye or refresh the senses , swarmed with ...
... tribes , as bounded by an extensive uniform plain resembling the ocean , covered with piles of sand of which the termination was unknown , and which , instead of any object that could cheer the eye or refresh the senses , swarmed with ...
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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 - 1832 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1832 |
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