The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, Volumen1J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1868 |
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Página 41 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página viii - Bruce won the source of the Blue Nile ; Speke and Grant won the Victoria source of the great White Nile ; and I have been permitted to succeed in completing the Nile Sources by the discovery of the great reservoir of the equatorial waters, the Albert N'yanza, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile.
Página 64 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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Página 231 - Existence after death ! How can that be ? Can a dead man get out of his grave unless we dig him out ? ' ' Do you think man is like a beast, that dies and is ended ? ' Commoro. — 'Certainly; an ox is stronger than a man; but he dies, and his bones last longer; they are bigger. A man's bones break quickly — he is weak.
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Página 196 - ... not only surrounded by iron-wood palisades, but every house was individually fortified by a little stockaded courtyard. The cattle were kept in large kraals in various parts of the town, and were most carefully attended to, fires being lit every night to protect them from flies ; and high platforms, in three tiers, were erected in many places, upon which sentinels watched both day and night to give the alarm in case of danger. The cattle are the wealth of the country, and so rich are the Latookas...
Página 233 - Where will the spirit live ?" " "Where does fire live ? Cannot you produce a fire * by rubbing two sticks together, yet you see not the fire in the wood. Has not that fire, that lies harmless and unseen in the sticks, the power to consume the whole country ? Which is the stronger, the small stick that first produces the fire, or the fire itself? So is the spirit the element within the body, as the element of fire exists in the stick; the element being superior to the substance.
Página 125 - From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor.