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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... covered with scraps of faded kamptulicon . As we emerge on a small landing , coming up , as it were , from a stage trap , a tall , portly Arab leans over the stair - rail , and extends to each in turn a firm , plump hand . It is Sayyid ...
... covered with scraps of faded kamptulicon . As we emerge on a small landing , coming up , as it were , from a stage trap , a tall , portly Arab leans over the stair - rail , and extends to each in turn a firm , plump hand . It is Sayyid ...
Pagina 54
... covered in a day , and as this was thirty - two miles it meant a forced march of thirteen hours . My men had willingly allowed me to ignore the disagreeable necessity , fearing that I might , as I certainly should have done , force them ...
... covered in a day , and as this was thirty - two miles it meant a forced march of thirteen hours . My men had willingly allowed me to ignore the disagreeable necessity , fearing that I might , as I certainly should have done , force them ...
Pagina 55
... covering thirty - two miles by nightfall seemed both feasible and easy of accomplish- ment . The air was fresh and buoyant , and either my potion of the night before or the change from the hot- house atmosphere of the coast to a more ...
... covering thirty - two miles by nightfall seemed both feasible and easy of accomplish- ment . The air was fresh and buoyant , and either my potion of the night before or the change from the hot- house atmosphere of the coast to a more ...
Pagina 74
... covered path plunged in absolute shade . We were now in the precincts of Taveita , but before we actually entered that African paradise we were obliged to halt at a gateway in the forest where the path was blocked with an immense ...
... covered path plunged in absolute shade . We were now in the precincts of Taveita , but before we actually entered that African paradise we were obliged to halt at a gateway in the forest where the path was blocked with an immense ...
Pagina 83
... covered with a snowy cloth from the canteen , while my servant further laid it with the enamelled iron plates and knife and fork and napkin for my solitary meal . To pass the time and forget my impatient hunger whilst the repast was ...
... covered with a snowy cloth from the canteen , while my servant further laid it with the enamelled iron plates and knife and fork and napkin for my solitary meal . To pass the time and forget my impatient hunger whilst the repast was ...
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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 Colobus colour common Demy 8vo Dinka district Eastern elytra English feet Fischer forest Galla goats grass green 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 Moši 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-kibôšo Wa-kwavi Wa-taveita White Nile word Zanzibar Zeitschr
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Pagina 21 - FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children. With 300 Engravings, New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
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.