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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... skin birds , gather and press plants , collect beetles , and catch butterflies . In a moist climate like that of Kilima - njaro the labour involved in making good . botanical collections alone was very great , and in all this I had no ...
... skin birds , gather and press plants , collect beetles , and catch butterflies . In a moist climate like that of Kilima - njaro the labour involved in making good . botanical collections alone was very great , and in all this I had no ...
Pagina 53
... skin broke out into grateful perspiration , the fitful pulse resumed a brisk and regular beat - no fainting now . I felt ready to march anywhere , and my blistered and ulcerated feet pained me no more . I ate my evening meal in a sort ...
... skin broke out into grateful perspiration , the fitful pulse resumed a brisk and regular beat - no fainting now . I felt ready to march anywhere , and my blistered and ulcerated feet pained me no more . I ate my evening meal in a sort ...
Pagina 69
... skin cured ? Of course not , why - and here you interrupt these reflec- tions by exclaiming excitedly to your servant , " Oh , look here ; I can't stand this . Give me my gun - sh ! don't you see that sable antelope - there ! standing ...
... skin cured ? Of course not , why - and here you interrupt these reflec- tions by exclaiming excitedly to your servant , " Oh , look here ; I can't stand this . Give me my gun - sh ! don't you see that sable antelope - there ! standing ...
Pagina 76
... skins , round their shoulders , either for adornment or when the weather was chilly with breezes blowing off the snow - capped mountain . I felt at home with the Wa - taveita from the first , for they were thoroughly conversant with ...
... skins , round their shoulders , either for adornment or when the weather was chilly with breezes blowing off the snow - capped mountain . I felt at home with the Wa - taveita from the first , for they were thoroughly conversant with ...
Pagina 89
... skin , with its long silky hair , of a most startling contrast in colour , was roughly fashioned into a covering for the shoulders , arranged so that a short lappet hung over the breasts , and the Round the ankles hinder part of the ...
... skin , with its long silky hair , of a most startling contrast in colour , was roughly fashioned into a covering for the shoulders , arranged so that a short lappet hung over the breasts , and the Round the ankles hinder part of the ...
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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 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.