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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... purchased for empty bottles or trinkets . Seeing a rather large village on the right bank , I stopped and tried to induce the people to come off to us , but they seemed afraid , and we had not time to spare to go ashore to 38 NARRATIVE ...
... purchased for empty bottles or trinkets . Seeing a rather large village on the right bank , I stopped and tried to induce the people to come off to us , but they seemed afraid , and we had not time to spare to go ashore to 38 NARRATIVE ...
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... purchased some substantial nets , some thread , grass mats , and brass ornaments . About noon we had a visit from Tshúkuma , who brought with him his head - wife named Ajéibo , his half - sister Adém , and one of Ajé's wives , named O ...
... purchased some substantial nets , some thread , grass mats , and brass ornaments . About noon we had a visit from Tshúkuma , who brought with him his head - wife named Ajéibo , his half - sister Adém , and one of Ajé's wives , named O ...
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... purchasing some , but declined doing so when I found the market value of a pair to be equal to the price of three slaves . Mr. Crowther and myself being desirous of leaving Simon Jonas here until our return , that he might better learn ...
... purchasing some , but declined doing so when I found the market value of a pair to be equal to the price of three slaves . Mr. Crowther and myself being desirous of leaving Simon Jonas here until our return , that he might better learn ...
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... purchased , besides several scrivelloes , a fine tooth weighing forty - two pounds . Up to this point the river was bounded by sandstone cliffs and sloping This has been variously estimated by different visitors from 140 to 300 feet ...
... purchased , besides several scrivelloes , a fine tooth weighing forty - two pounds . Up to this point the river was bounded by sandstone cliffs and sloping This has been variously estimated by different visitors from 140 to 300 feet ...
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... purchased in 1841 for the model farm , and stretching far away to the southward until there arrested by rugged rocky ground and abrupt mountains . Pursuing a somewhat meandering route , the Narrow Kwóra flowing from the northward wound ...
... purchased in 1841 for the model farm , and stretching far away to the southward until there arrested by rugged rocky ground and abrupt mountains . Pursuing a somewhat meandering route , the Narrow Kwóra flowing from the northward wound ...
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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.