The Kilima-Njaro Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. And a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro DistrictK. Paul, Trench, and Company, 1886 - 572 pagini |
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... colour and brightness to its apartments . The windows of two sides of the house look forth on the sea , and command the entire harbour . All the shipping becomes a study of ever - changing colour and form . The great black hulks of the ...
... colour and brightness to its apartments . The windows of two sides of the house look forth on the sea , and command the entire harbour . All the shipping becomes a study of ever - changing colour and form . The great black hulks of the ...
Pagina 26
... colour , and one which , focussed and framed by the lattice- work that is hung with creeping plants , becomes a real picture . You see the ships in the harbour , the canoes and rowing- Fig . 7 . Fishing Boat and Outrigger Canoe ...
... colour , and one which , focussed and framed by the lattice- work that is hung with creeping plants , becomes a real picture . You see the ships in the harbour , the canoes and rowing- Fig . 7 . Fishing Boat and Outrigger Canoe ...
Pagina 28
... colour , and light , and shade . The Sul- tan's clock - tower , which rises like a minaret above the flat - roofed ... coloured stone , they form under the sun's rays a snowy , irregular mass , the outline of which tells out effectively ...
... colour , and light , and shade . The Sul- tan's clock - tower , which rises like a minaret above the flat - roofed ... coloured stone , they form under the sun's rays a snowy , irregular mass , the outline of which tells out effectively ...
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... colour is heightened by its background of strangely - coloured eastern sky which , first becoming sombre blue with the sinking sun , for a brief while grows green with jealousy of the west and partial reflection of the sunset , and ...
... colour is heightened by its background of strangely - coloured eastern sky which , first becoming sombre blue with the sinking sun , for a brief while grows green with jealousy of the west and partial reflection of the sunset , and ...
Pagina 45
... colours , for in East Africa , as I remarked on the River Congo , there are most varied and capricious tastes to consult among the natives , and scarcely two villages concur in their canons of taste . Thus , you must take different ...
... colours , for in East Africa , as I remarked on the River Congo , there are most varied and capricious tastes to consult among the natives , and scarcely two villages concur in their canons of taste . Thus , you must take different ...
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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern ... Harry Johnston Vizualizare completă - 1886 |
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40-60 miles inland Africa antelope Arab arrived banana Bantu languages Bari birds Čaga caravan Cheaper Edition chief cloth coast colour common Demy 8vo Dinka district Eastern elytra English feet Fischer forest Galla goats grass green hartebeest hill Hochst Illustrations inhabitants Johnstoni journey Ki-čaga Ki-gweno Ki-taveita Kibô Kilima Kilima-njaro Kimawenzi Kiongwe Kitimbiriu Kwavi Lake Jipé Large crown 8vo Latuka looked Lumi Madaraz Mandara Maranu Masai masc Maungu Méru Mombasa Moąi mountain natives nearly Neotragus night njaro nouns Oliv ostrich plains Plur plural Poems prefix present pronouns race river round Ruvu Sayyid Second Edition settlement Sing Sir John Kirk skin slopes Small crown 8vo snow soldiers species specimens stream Sultan Swahili Taita Taveita Third Edition tongues trade trees tribes verb vicinity Victoria Nyanza vide vols Wa-čaga Wa-kibôąo Wa-kwavi Wa-taveita White Nile word Zanzibar Zeitschr
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Pagina 1 - THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Pagina 11 - MARKHAM, Capt. Albert Hastings, RN— The Great Frozen Sea : A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
Pagina 16 - CHEYNE, MA With Homilies by Rev. Prof. JR THOMSON, MA, Rev. WF ADENEY, MA, Rev. AF MUIR, MA, Rev. S.
Pagina 22 - VII. Animal Locomotion ; or Walking, Swimming, and Flying. By JB Pettigrew, MD, FRS, etc.
Pagina 22 - XXIII. Studies in Spectrum Analysis. By J. Norman Lockyer, FRS With six photographic Illustrations of Spectra, and numerous engravings on Wood.
Pagina 17 - Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians. A New Edition. Small crown 8vo, $s. Lectures and Addresses, with other Literary Remains. A New Edition. Crown 8vo, 5*. An Analysis of Mr. Tennyson's
Pagina 5 - Commodore JG— Memoir of, with Extracts from his Letters and Journals. Edited by his Widow.
Pagina 22 - XVIII. The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical Optics.
Pagina 2 - Is. The Childhood of Religions. Including a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends.