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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Pagina 34
... sometimes baffles verbose flatterers by his curt replies . I may re- mind my readers here of a little incident commented on at the time of the Sayyid's visit to England . At his first meeting with Lord Beaconsfield that statesman ...
... sometimes baffles verbose flatterers by his curt replies . I may re- mind my readers here of a little incident commented on at the time of the Sayyid's visit to England . At his first meeting with Lord Beaconsfield that statesman ...
Pagina 35
... sometimes cemented over , and are generally , from the nature of their paving , clean and inodoriferous . They are very narrow , and the houses in the Arab quarters are lofty , so that you may walk about most of the town in perfect ...
... sometimes cemented over , and are generally , from the nature of their paving , clean and inodoriferous . They are very narrow , and the houses in the Arab quarters are lofty , so that you may walk about most of the town in perfect ...
Pagina 57
... in till I was within measurable distance from water . Sometimes I did give way - stretched myself languidly under the faint patchwork of shade that 1 some meagre bush afforded , and lay there during some THE START - MOMBASA TO TAITA . 57.
... in till I was within measurable distance from water . Sometimes I did give way - stretched myself languidly under the faint patchwork of shade that 1 some meagre bush afforded , and lay there during some THE START - MOMBASA TO TAITA . 57.
Pagina 65
... sometimes to know which was hartebeest and which was ant - hill ; for the long grass hiding the antelope's legs left merely a red - humped mass , which , until it moved , might well be the mound of red earth constructed by the white ...
... sometimes to know which was hartebeest and which was ant - hill ; for the long grass hiding the antelope's legs left merely a red - humped mass , which , until it moved , might well be the mound of red earth constructed by the white ...
Pagina 66
... sometimes by the sharply - pointed , flag- like leaves of a kind of squill - a liliaceous plant- which frequently crowned the summit of the ant - hill , or grew at its base , thus suggesting the horns of an antelope , rather with the ...
... sometimes by the sharply - pointed , flag- like leaves of a kind of squill - a liliaceous plant- which frequently crowned the summit of the ant - hill , or grew at its base , thus suggesting the horns of an antelope , rather with 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 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 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.
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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.