Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volym 1Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876 - 261 sidor |
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Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volym 1 Richard Francis Burton Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1876 |
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volym 1 Sir Richard Francis Burton Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1876 |
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volym 1 Sir Richard Francis Burton Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1876 |
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Africa Ambriz amongst Aneroid Angola Annabom Banza Nokki Barbot Boma bush Cabinda calabash called canoes Captain Tuckey Cazembe chart chief Chingufu chya cloth coast Congo River Congoese Cuanza Cuanza River Dahome declared Ditto Douville east English European Expedition factory Father feet Fetish French Gaboon Geographical Gidi Mavunga grass hills huts Island king Kinsembo lake land Livingstone Loanda Loango lower Merolla miles moleques mouth native negro Niger Nile Nkulu Noon north-east northern bank Nsundi Nzadi Padrão palm palm oil palm wine passed Paulo Porto da Lenha Portuguese rains rapids remarked right bank rocks round Royal Geographical Society São Paulo sea-breeze season Sept September settlement Shark Point showed slaves Sonho southern stream tion Tom Peter trade traveller trees Tuckey's village visited Vivi whilst wild wind women Yellala Zaire Zambeze
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Sida 304 - gan to pass Long ere the brighte" sun uprisen was ; " In which were cake"s great, straight as a line, Under the which the grass so fresh of hue Was newly sprung ; and an eight foot or nine Eve"ry tree well from his fellow grew, With branches broad laden with leaves new, That sprungen out against the sunne sheen, Some very red, and some a glad light green...
Sida 114 - Sugar would be too dear, if the plants which produce it were cultivated by any other than slaves. "These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied. "It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body.
Sida 175 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Sida 254 - of the kingdom of Congo, is the mild spring or autumn of Italy ; it is not subject to rains, but every morning there falls a dew which fertilizes the earth.' None of the party make any complaint of the climate ; they speak, on the contrary, in their notes and memoranda, of the cool, dry, and refreshing atmosphere, especially after the western breezes set in, which they usually do an hour or two after the sun has passed the meridian, and continue till midnight...
Sida 195 - ... by other former mariners of the lake whom I had with me. At the least, this place where we halted for dinner, on the banks of the Rugufu River, is eighteen and a half hours, or fortysix miles, from Ujiji; and, as Kabogo is said to be near Uguhha, it must be over sixty miles from Ujiji; therefore the sound of the thundering surf, which is said to roll into the caves of Kabogo, was heard by us at a distance of over one hundred miles away from them.
Sida 183 - ... had been led into a mistake in saying that any of them flowed to the westward. Indeed, it was only at this time that I began to perceive that all the western feeders of the Kasai, except the Quango, flow first from the western side toward the centre of the country, then gradually turn, with the Kasai itself, to the north, and, after the confluence of the Kasai with the Quango, an immense body of water, collected from all these branches, finds its way out of the country by means of the river Congo...
Sida 179 - my observations with the information I have been able to collect from the natives, vague and trifling as it is, 1 cannot help thinking that the Zaire will be found to issue from some large lake, or chain of lakes, considerably to the northward of the line ;" and he contends that, so far from the low state of the river in July and August militating against such an hypothesis, it has the contrary tendency of giving additional weight to it,
Sida 199 - I was now duly established with my books and instruments at Nkaye, and the inevitable delay was employed in studying the country and the people, and in making a botanical collection. But the season was wholly unpropitious. A naval officer, who was considered an authority upon the Coast, had advised me to travel in September, when a journey should never begin later than May. The vegetation was feeling the effect of the Cacimbo; most of the perennials were in seed, and the annuals were nearly dried...
Sida 174 - ... and ankles. The delirium was most commonly of the low kind, with great aversion from medicine. Singultus, a common and distressing symptom. The fatal termination in some, happened as early as the third or fourth, but in others, was protracted even to the twentieth day. With regard to the treatment, I shall here only observe, that bleeding was particularly unsuccessful. Cathartics were of the greatest utility ; and calomel, so administered as speedily to induce copious salivation, generally procured...
Sida 60 - ... and indented frownes in his angry face, foaming with disdaine, and filling the aire with noise (with fresh helpe), supplies those forces which the salt sea hath consumed.