Narrative of an Exploring Voyage Up the Rivers Kwóra and Bínue: (commonly Known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854. With a Map and Appendices. Pub. with the Sanction of Her Majesty's Government. By William Balfour BaikieJ. Murray, 1856 - 456 Seiten |
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... carry out , besides extended research , various philanthropic but ill - matured schemes . Its ill success , with its fearful amount of sickness and loss of life , still fresh in our memories , tended greatly to confirm the conviction of ...
... carry out , besides extended research , various philanthropic but ill - matured schemes . Its ill success , with its fearful amount of sickness and loss of life , still fresh in our memories , tended greatly to confirm the conviction of ...
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... carrying with us delightful weather . Shoals of flying - fishes surrounded us , amusing us with their glittering flights . Rising in various numbers , from half - a - dozen to fifty or sixty at a time , they pursued courses of different ...
... carrying with us delightful weather . Shoals of flying - fishes surrounded us , amusing us with their glittering flights . Rising in various numbers , from half - a - dozen to fifty or sixty at a time , they pursued courses of different ...
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... carried on along the coast a most extensive trade , and whose magnificent and most comfortable residence both surprised and gratified me . During dinner we were waited on by five or six nice clean - looking children , whose history is ...
... carried on along the coast a most extensive trade , and whose magnificent and most comfortable residence both surprised and gratified me . During dinner we were waited on by five or six nice clean - looking children , whose history is ...
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... carried it astern , where its struggles were quickly ended by the appearance on the stage of a large shark , which composedly swallowed it ; seemingly as a mere whet to the appetite . At Lagos we were joined by the Rev. Mr. Crowther ...
... carried it astern , where its struggles were quickly ended by the appearance on the stage of a large shark , which composedly swallowed it ; seemingly as a mere whet to the appetite . At Lagos we were joined by the Rev. Mr. Crowther ...
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... carried along this unexamined river . The only guide of any worth is a little book of directions , printed at the Missionary Press , and compiled by Captain Lewis , who knows the pilotage better than any man living . This , which to any ...
... carried along this unexamined river . The only guide of any worth is a little book of directions , printed at the Missionary Press , and compiled by Captain Lewis , who knows the pilotage better than any man living . This , which to any ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A'boko's Abó African afternoon Alihéli anchored Andony appearance ashore Attá bank Bássa Beecroft Bíni Bínue boat Bonny Bornú brass called Cameroon canoes chief chiefly coast Confluence cowries creek Crowther dialect Djúku Dóma eastward expedition Fcap feet Fernando Fernando Po Formoso Fulátas gave ground Gúrowa Hamarúwa Hausa Hutchinson huts I'gbira I'gbo Iddá Igára Igbégbe Igbo inhabitants Island Isuáma ivory journey Kalabár Keána King Korórofa Krú Krúmen Kwóra Lagos landed language look Macgregor Laird mark meridian altitude miles Mítshi morning named natives nearly night numerous Núpe o'clock O'jogo observations Orú palm-oil Pánda Páro party passed Pleiad Post 8vo present preter Púlo reached river Second Edition sent ship shore side Sierra Leone slaves steam supercargo Third Edition told town trade trees tribes Tshúkuma village Vols voyage wood Woodcuts Wukári yams Yoruba Zhibú Zúri
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Seite 25 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Seite 6 - BUNBURY'S (CJF) Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and Native Tribes of the Country.
Seite 8 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 11 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Seite 31 - VAUX'S (WSW) Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum ; being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian. Egyptian, and Etruscan Art preserved there. With 300 Woodcuts. Post 8vo.
Seite 14 - HAMPDEN'S (BISHOP) Essay on the Philosophical Evidence of Christianity, or the Credibility obtained to a Scripture Revelation from its Coincidence with the Facts of Nature.
Seite 12 - BUTTMAN'S LEXILOGUS ; or, a Critical Examination of the Meaning and Etymology of numerous Greek Words and Passages, intended principally for Homer and Hesiod. Translated, and edited, with Explanatory Notes and copious Indexes, by REV.
Seite 29 - HISTORY OF ROME; from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. By DEAN LIDDELL.
Seite 29 - School History of Greece ; from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art.