The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, Volumen1Macmillan, 1867 - 395 páginas |
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Abyssinia accordingly African elephant animals antelopes appeared Arabs armed arrived Atbara attack Bahr el Gazal Baker bank Bari beads beat Blue Nile boats bracelets buffalo camels camp carried cattle Ceylon CHAP chief civilization commenced Commoro crowd dead desert difficulty distance donkeys drum Ellyria entirely expedition feet high Filfil fire formed fowls giraffes Gondokoro ground guns hand head heard herd high grass hippopotamus horse hour hundred hunting Ibrahim immediately inches ivory journey junction jungle Kamrasi's Katchiba Khartoum killed Koorshid lake Latooka Leggé loaded Mahommed marshes miles mimosas morning mountains mutiny natives negro night Obbo passed porters present procure rain ravine razzia Richarn rifle river rock rushed savage season shot slaves Sobat Speke and Grant spot stream Tétel town traders trees tribe Turks tusks Unyoro usual vakeel valley variety VIII village waterbuck White Nile wild women yards
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Página 1 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 39 - 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 1 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee: For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried: The Lord do so to me, And more also, If ought but death part thee and me.
Página 62 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Página 230 - 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.
Página 185 - I looked at this mutinous rascal for a moment ; this was the burst of the conspiracy, and the threats and insolence that I had been forced to pass over for the sake of the expedition all rushed before me. ' Lay down your gun !' I thundered, ' and load the camels !' . . . .
Página 123 - 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.
Página 273 - In his own country he was a wild savage, and enslaved his brother man ; he thus became a victim to his own system ; to the institution of slavery that is indigenous to the soil of Africa, and that has not...
Página vii - Should anything offend the sensitive mind, and suggest the unfitness of the situation for a woman's presence, I must beseech my fair readers to reflect, that the pilgrim's wife followed him, weary and footsore, through all his difficulties, led, not by choice, but by devotion; and that in times of misery and sickness her tender care saved his life and prospered the expedition.
Página xxxi - March, 1861, I commenced an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile, with the hope of meeting the East African expedition of Captains Speke and Grant, that had been sent by the English Government from the South via Zanzibar, for that object. I had not the presumption to publish my intention, as the sources of the...