Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849-1855, Volume 3 |
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... Interesting Relations of Water Communication . - Political Situation . - Delay . - News from Timbuktu . - Unlucky Fate of a Letter ....... 197 CHAPTER LXII . UNSETTLED PROVINCES OBSTRUCTED BY NATURE AND INFESTED BY MAN.- — ÁRIBÍN- DA ...
... Interesting Relations of Water Communication . - Political Situation . - Delay . - News from Timbuktu . - Unlucky Fate of a Letter ....... 197 CHAPTER LXII . UNSETTLED PROVINCES OBSTRUCTED BY NATURE AND INFESTED BY MAN.- — ÁRIBÍN- DA ...
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... interesting and animated spectacle , more especially coming after and contrasted with the dull life of the capital . The well measured fifteen fathoms in depth , and the inhabitants were so on the alert for gain that they thought it ...
... interesting and animated spectacle , more especially coming after and contrasted with the dull life of the capital . The well measured fifteen fathoms in depth , and the inhabitants were so on the alert for gain that they thought it ...
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... interesting as Rédaní . We en- * The depth of the well measured twenty - two fathoms . This is a complaint to which almost every European in these climes is exposed , and from which Clapperton suffered very severely . I found the best ...
... interesting as Rédaní . We en- * The depth of the well measured twenty - two fathoms . This is a complaint to which almost every European in these climes is exposed , and from which Clapperton suffered very severely . I found the best ...
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... interesting group of fractions of former tribes who have here taken refuge from the destructive power of a larger empire . I took a long walk in the afternoon along the sheet of water , which was indented in the most picturesque manner ...
... interesting group of fractions of former tribes who have here taken refuge from the destructive power of a larger empire . I took a long walk in the afternoon along the sheet of water , which was indented in the most picturesque manner ...
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... interesting account which he gave to Lucas ( Proceedings of the African Association , vol . i . , p . 148 ) , distinctly states the number of the gates as seven ; but it is remarkable that , in all the accounts of the taking of the ...
... interesting account which he gave to Lucas ( Proceedings of the African Association , vol . i . , p . 148 ) , distinctly states the number of the gates as seven ; but it is remarkable that , in all the accounts of the taking of the ...
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