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 4Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 - Africa, Central |
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Page 45
... cotton at all is raised , so that this forms an important article of importation . Towards the south lies another place , called Deggerári , and to the south - west a third one , called Dúgura . Granitic eminences dotted the whole ...
... cotton at all is raised , so that this forms an important article of importation . Towards the south lies another place , called Deggerári , and to the south - west a third one , called Dúgura . Granitic eminences dotted the whole ...
Page 50
... cotton , besides a grove of about two hundred date palms . Having traversed this valley where the road leads to Bílla Mallem Gárgebe , we entered a thicket of mimosas , while the eminences assumed a rounder * Vol . II . p . 72 . CHAP ...
... cotton , besides a grove of about two hundred date palms . Having traversed this valley where the road leads to Bílla Mallem Gárgebe , we entered a thicket of mimosas , while the eminences assumed a rounder * Vol . II . p . 72 . CHAP ...
Page 51
... a concavity or dell surrounding the town on this side , and laid out in small kitchen - gardens and cotton plantations as shown in the accompanying woodcut ; for , notwith- standing the entreaties of the governor , I did not. E 2.
... a concavity or dell surrounding the town on this side , and laid out in small kitchen - gardens and cotton plantations as shown in the accompanying woodcut ; for , notwith- standing the entreaties of the governor , I did not. E 2.
Page 57
... cotton- grounds and kitchen - gardens . * But although in this * I here give a list of the towns and more important villages belonging to the province of Múniyó : - Gúre , the present capital , conquered from the Díggera by Kóso the ...
... cotton- grounds and kitchen - gardens . * But although in this * I here give a list of the towns and more important villages belonging to the province of Múniyó : - Gúre , the present capital , conquered from the Díggera by Kóso the ...
Page 59
... cotton - grounds , all in different stages of cultivation : most of the beds where wheat was grown were just being laid out , the clods of dry earth being broken and the ground irrigated , while in other places the green stalks of the ...
... cotton - grounds , all in different stages of cultivation : most of the beds where wheat was grown were just being laid out , the clods of dry earth being broken and the ground irrigated , while in other places the green stalks of the ...
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