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 39
... reached the more favoured and diversified districts of this fine country . Small channels intersected the country in every direction ; and immense fishing - baskets were lying in some of them , apparently in order to catch the fish ...
... reached the more favoured and diversified districts of this fine country . Small channels intersected the country in every direction ; and immense fishing - baskets were lying in some of them , apparently in order to catch the fish ...
Page 42
... reached the town of Ngárruwá , surrounded with a clay wall in decay , and here watered our animals . The wells were ten fathoms deep ; and crowds of boys and girls were busy drawing water from two other richer wells situated on the ...
... reached the town of Ngárruwá , surrounded with a clay wall in decay , and here watered our animals . The wells were ten fathoms deep ; and crowds of boys and girls were busy drawing water from two other richer wells situated on the ...
Page 43
... reached , after a good march of altogether about twenty - two miles , the rich well of Berbéruwá , a small miserable hamlet which lies at a short distance to the west . The well , however , which was scarcely a fathom in depth , was ...
... reached , after a good march of altogether about twenty - two miles , the rich well of Berbéruwá , a small miserable hamlet which lies at a short distance to the west . The well , however , which was scarcely a fathom in depth , was ...
Page 46
... reached the western foot of the eminence of Old Búne , which is built in a recess of the rocky cliffs on the western slope of the mount . But the village , which has already suffered greatly by the foundation of New Búne at so short a ...
... reached the western foot of the eminence of Old Búne , which is built in a recess of the rocky cliffs on the western slope of the mount . But the village , which has already suffered greatly by the foundation of New Búne at so short a ...
Page 56
... reached Kátsena , neverthe- less proved of some use for a few days . I presume that it had been his intention to have given me a better animal , and that his design had only been frus- 1 CHAP . LIV . SLAVE - HUNTING . - SITE 56 CHAP ...
... reached Kátsena , neverthe- less proved of some use for a few days . I presume that it had been his intention to have given me a better animal , and that his design had only been frus- 1 CHAP . LIV . SLAVE - HUNTING . - SITE 56 CHAP ...
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