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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... journey , who , displaced from the homage of the eager geographer , must be content to linger still a few years longer in pos- session of the vague respect of the British schoolboy . Although the mass of Kilima - njaro rises rather ...
... journey , who , displaced from the homage of the eager geographer , must be content to linger still a few years longer in pos- session of the vague respect of the British schoolboy . Although the mass of Kilima - njaro rises rather ...
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... journeys in search of food , this pigeon became a dodo , huge , fat , and inert , with atro- phied and useless pinions . Again , on the mountain- ranges of Sumatra , of Japan , of North America , also on the Alps of Europe , dwell queer ...
... journeys in search of food , this pigeon became a dodo , huge , fat , and inert , with atro- phied and useless pinions . Again , on the mountain- ranges of Sumatra , of Japan , of North America , also on the Alps of Europe , dwell queer ...
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... journey across the Masai country ( since so splendidly carried out ) a prolonged journey on Kilima - njaro , and a consequent investiga- tion of its fauna and flora . But for many reasons this plan had to be abandoned , and the British ...
... journey across the Masai country ( since so splendidly carried out ) a prolonged journey on Kilima - njaro , and a consequent investiga- tion of its fauna and flora . But for many reasons this plan had to be abandoned , and the British ...
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... journeys by observations for latitude and longitude , and could only fix the position of the mountains , of which they alleged the existence , by dead reckoning . As a matter of fact , they placed them with wonderful accuracy ...
... journeys by observations for latitude and longitude , and could only fix the position of the mountains , of which they alleged the existence , by dead reckoning . As a matter of fact , they placed them with wonderful accuracy ...
Pagina 9
... journey to Kilima - njaro soon after his first , intending to proceed due east to the Unknown Lake ( Vic- toria Nyanza ) , but the chief of Mačame plundered him and compelled him to return unsuccessfully to the coast . njaro and stayed ...
... journey to Kilima - njaro soon after his first , intending to proceed due east to the Unknown Lake ( Vic- toria Nyanza ) , but the chief of Mačame plundered him and compelled him to return unsuccessfully to the coast . njaro and stayed ...
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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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