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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... inhabitant of an alpine range or a sea - girt island , and being thus removed and protected from the natural checks to its peculiar development offered by the contemporaneous evolution of its fellows , may , as it were , run riot in the ...
... inhabitant of an alpine range or a sea - girt island , and being thus removed and protected from the natural checks to its peculiar development offered by the contemporaneous evolution of its fellows , may , as it were , run riot in the ...
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... inhabitants . After several centuries of quasi Arab rule , Zanzibar in the beginning of the sixteenth century came under the dominion of the Portuguese , whose language has left its traces in the Swahili Vocabulary . When Portugal fell ...
... inhabitants . After several centuries of quasi Arab rule , Zanzibar in the beginning of the sixteenth century came under the dominion of the Portuguese , whose language has left its traces in the Swahili Vocabulary . When Portugal fell ...
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... inhabitants , has a population of about 90,000 . As regards trade it is the most flourishing and important place in East Africa , and the value of its exports exceeds at the present time 1,300,000l . , of which ivory alone contributes ...
... inhabitants , has a population of about 90,000 . As regards trade it is the most flourishing and important place in East Africa , and the value of its exports exceeds at the present time 1,300,000l . , of which ivory alone contributes ...
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... inhabitants of the Mombasa district are a thoroughly bad lot . It is hopeless to win them by kindness , or infuse a spirit of discipline by sternness . They are liars , cowards , thieves , and drunkards . They were so when Krapf , the ...
... inhabitants of the Mombasa district are a thoroughly bad lot . It is hopeless to win them by kindness , or infuse a spirit of discipline by sternness . They are liars , cowards , thieves , and drunkards . They were so when Krapf , the ...
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... inhabitants , with many a sonorous boom re - echoing through the forest alleys , that strangers were arriving with peaceable and friendly intentions , and a wish to trade . As I was in the act of crossing a narrow rivulet , by means of ...
... inhabitants , with many a sonorous boom re - echoing through the forest alleys , that strangers were arriving with peaceable and friendly intentions , and a wish to trade . As I was in the act of crossing a narrow rivulet , by means of ...
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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.