Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 6; Volumes 1861-1862Edward Stanford, 1862 - Electronic journals |
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Abeokuta Africa Andaman ascended Australia Bay of Bengal British Columbia Burke Camaroons Cambodia Captain Caucasus charts China Chinese coast colony Commander commerce cone Cooper's Creek cotton crater Creek crossed depôt direction discovery distance east eastern eastward Erzerum expedition exploration extensive feet Fraser River Government ground Gulf Gulf of Carpentaria harbour hills important inhabitants interest interior islands Japan Jeridde journey Kilimanjaro labours lake land Lieut Medallist miles missionaries monsoon Mount Mount Helen mountain Murchison named natives navigation nearly northern numerous observations ocean P.M. arrived paper party passed ports present PRESIDENT province reached region river road rocks Roderick Murchison route Royal Geographical Society seen Shaumur Shiré shore side South Australia south-west summit survey temperature town travelled tropical valley Vermilion Pass Victoria Victoria Crater village visited walled city weather Western wind Zambesi
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Page 219 - Speech, Her Majesty indulged in the hope "that my new colony on the Pacific, British Columbia, may be but one step in the career of steady progress by which my dominions in North America may be ultimately peopled in an unbroken chain from the Atlantic to the Pacific by a loyal and industrious population
Page 121 - Chair. THE Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read and confirmed, and the regulations respecting the Anniversary Meetings having been read, the President appointed John Hogg and James Macqueen, Esqrs., Scrutineers for the Ballot. Captain the Hon. James
Page 130 - proceeded to search for the Ten Tribes. A full account of all these wanderings and of his second journey to Bokhara, in order, if possible, to effect the liberation of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, as also of his visit to the United States, will be found in his works. I have
Page 33 - us with the following account of it :—"Once on a time the ancients were going to fight another tribe; they halted here and sat down. After a long consultation they came to the unanimous conclusion that, instead of proceeding to fight and kill their neighbours, and
Page 33 - and perchance getting themselves killed, it would be more like men to raise this heap of stones as their earnest protest against what the other tribe had done, which they accordingly did, and then returned quietly home again." But, although the Batoka appear never to have had much stomach for fighting with men, they are remarkably brave hunters of buffaloes and
Page 143 - at sea." their angular collision as to cause those large circular eddies or rotatory storms, called cyclones, which are really like the greater storms in all parts of the world, although they do not quite assimilate to local whirlwinds,
Page 190 - countries he has visited. Though there may be a difference of opinion as to the propriety of our colonising the Archipelago, there can be none as to the beauty and interest which
Page 34 - This, he frankly said, will not cure all the bitten cattle, for cattle, and men too, die in spite of medicine ; but should a herd by accident stray into a tsetse district and get bitten, by this medicine of Kampakampa, his father,
Page 142 - atmosphere and its movements, it is extremely difficult to combine mathematical exactness with the results of experience obtained by practical ocular observation and much reflection ; but to some extent this has been effected recently, the Board of Trade having arranged telegraphic and frequent communication between widely-separated stations and a
Page 153 - are used in preference to others, however apparently expressive. In saying on any day what the probable character of the weather will be to-morrow, or the day after, at the foot of a table showing its observed nature that very morning, a limited degree of information is offered for about two days in advance, which is as far as may be trusted