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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... line of foam preceded , and just before this reached us , everything was , for an instant , still as death . Soon , however , the scene completely changed , the storm had burst upon us , and the fierce gale was accompanied by tremendous ...
... line of foam preceded , and just before this reached us , everything was , for an instant , still as death . Soon , however , the scene completely changed , the storm had burst upon us , and the fierce gale was accompanied by tremendous ...
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... line the coast . Mr. Richards undertook to pilot us in , for which purpose he stationed himself right in the bows , watching with practised eye for the proper channel . The time selected was about a quarter flood , and everything being ...
... line the coast . Mr. Richards undertook to pilot us in , for which purpose he stationed himself right in the bows , watching with practised eye for the proper channel . The time selected was about a quarter flood , and everything being ...
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... lines of sombre mangroves , forty , fifty , or even sixty feet in height . The only thing left to our sight was a narrow strip of sky overhead . No dry land was visible , not a canoe nor a native was encountered , and the only sign of ...
... lines of sombre mangroves , forty , fifty , or even sixty feet in height . The only thing left to our sight was a narrow strip of sky overhead . No dry land was visible , not a canoe nor a native was encountered , and the only sign of ...
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... lines extend- ing diagonally across the cheek from the inner angle of the eye . The one down the forehead , which is very prominent , and gives a peculiar and unpleasant ex- pression to the countenance , is performed in child- hood by ...
... lines extend- ing diagonally across the cheek from the inner angle of the eye . The one down the forehead , which is very prominent , and gives a peculiar and unpleasant ex- pression to the countenance , is performed in child- hood by ...
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... line of separation between the Orú and the I'gbo countries . From this point up to Abó nothing remarkable occurred ; the weather kept gloomy and wet , until we anchored off the latter place on the afternoon of the 21st of July . Some ...
... line of separation between the Orú and the I'gbo countries . From this point up to Abó nothing remarkable occurred ; the weather kept gloomy and wet , until we anchored off the latter place on the afternoon of the 21st of July . Some ...
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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
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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.