The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, 1권Harper, 1860 - 572페이지 This book contains a detailed description of a personal adventure into the Central African Lake Regions. The volume is a combination of an expoistion of popular and picturesque points of views and a geography and ethnology of the area. |
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African appeared Arab merchants Arabs asses Baloch beads Bombay calabash called canoes caravan carry cattle chief cloth coast Colonel Hamerton companion copal cotton desert district dollars East Africa expedition feet frasilah goat gourds grain grass ground halt head hills holcus huts Indian interior ivory jemadar journey jungle K'hutu Kannena Kaole Karagwah Kazeh khete Kidogo Kilwa Kingani Kinyamwezi kirangozi kraal land load Malagarazi mbugu mganga miles Mk'hali mountains Msene Muinyi Muzungu night northern Nullah Nyanza passed plain porters present race rains regions River road Royal Geographical Society Rufiji River Salim season settlement shukkah slaves Snay bin Amir sons of Ramji spear strangers sultan Tanganyika Lake tembe thick tion travelers trees tribes Uganda Ugogo Ujiji Ukerewe Unyamwezi Unyanyembe Unyoro Usagara usual Uvira vegetation village Wagogo Wanyamwezi Wasawahili Wazaramo western wild Zanzibar Zungomero
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268 페이지 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
409 페이지 - I no longer felt any doubt that the lake at my feet gave birth to that interesting river, the source of which has been the subject of so much speculation, and the object of so many explorers.
493 페이지 - Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
285 페이지 - ... in the pasture-lands frequent herds of many-colored cattle, plump, roundbarrelled, and high-humped, like the Indian breeds, and mingled flocks of goats and sheep dispersed over the landscape, suggest ideas of barbarous comfort and plenty.
307 페이지 - Farther in front stretch the waters, an expanse of the lightest and softest blue, in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam.
125 페이지 - ... alternately soft and balmy, cool and reviving, and to the aspect of clear blue skies, which lent their tints to highland ridges well wooded with various greens. Dull mangrove, dismal jungle, and monotonous grass, were supplanted by tall solitary trees, among which the lofty tamarind rose conspicuously graceful, and a card-table-like swamp, cut by a net-work of streams, nullahs, and stagnant pools, gave way to dry healthy slopes, with short steep pitches and gently shelving hills.