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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... means per- functory cares of superintending the expedition . I not only had to conduct long and wearisome palavers with native chiefs , and talk them into acquiescence with my plans , I not only had to show INTRODUCTORY . 13.
... means per- functory cares of superintending the expedition . I not only had to conduct long and wearisome palavers with native chiefs , and talk them into acquiescence with my plans , I not only had to show INTRODUCTORY . 13.
Pagina 20
... means of an earnest expostulation and half - playful sarcasm which would have sounded ill through the intermediary of some wily Goanese . So great was the influence already exercised over the Prince of Zanzibar after two years of ...
... means of an earnest expostulation and half - playful sarcasm which would have sounded ill through the intermediary of some wily Goanese . So great was the influence already exercised over the Prince of Zanzibar after two years of ...
Pagina 31
... mean and poky staircase 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 ...
... mean and poky staircase 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 ...
Pagina 35
... mean figure among the world's rulers and statesmen . Sayyid Barghash is the son of the last joint ruler of Maskat and Zanzibar - Sayyid Sa'id . His mother was an Abyssinian woman . He has nearly a hundred wives and five or six children ...
... mean figure among the world's rulers and statesmen . Sayyid Barghash is the son of the last joint ruler of Maskat and Zanzibar - Sayyid Sa'id . His mother was an Abyssinian woman . He has nearly a hundred wives and five or six children ...
Pagina 37
... means peculiar to this island , may be observed and studied here with greater facility than on the main- land . Of such are the magnificent blue Clitorea , the extraordinary Kigelia Africana , the exquisitely lovely Hibiscus ...
... means peculiar to this island , may be observed and studied here with greater facility than on the main- land . Of such are the magnificent blue Clitorea , the extraordinary Kigelia Africana , the exquisitely lovely Hibiscus ...
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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.