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Title: Across Africa, etc. With a map and plates.]Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Cameron, Verney
Lovett; 1885. xxvii. 569 p.; 8 . 010096.g.40.
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Across Africa (Paperback)
Verney Lovett Cameron
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R2,234
R2,114
Discovery Miles 21 140
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1877 Excerpt: ...holes, jump through into the baskets ready for
their reception. The flsherwomen seemed to think it great fun, and
July, enjoyed themselves immensely, shrieking, screaming, and
laugh1874. ing t-he whole while. Leaving the banks of the Luama, we
forded an affluent--the Lulwu, thirty yards in width and four feet
in depth--and, marching two miles farther, reached the bend of the
Luama, where we had arranged to cross it. Canoes were here in
readiness; but as there were only tbree, the work of getting the
caravan over occupied some time, for the river was fully a hundred
yards in width and eight to ten feet deep in the middle, and had
steep banks. While we were thus engaged, at 9h. 10m. local mean
time, there was a slight shock of earthquake; a low, rumbling sound
and a faint though distinctly perceptible tremor of the ground
passing from east-north-east to west-south-west. A large number of
hippopotami were blowing in mid-stream, on our reaching the river,
so I occupied myself by firing at them. One, getting a bullet and
shell in his head in rapid succession, sunk, and the rest cleared
out, which was a very desirable result, since they often hog up
underneath a canoe in deep water, and heave it right out, capsizing
all the occupants. The canoes bore marks of the tusks of these
brutes, which look upon them as intruders, and often attack them
wantonly. By the time the caravan had been ferried over, the sun
was very powerful, and it was too late to proceed farther; so we
camped in a small scattered village about a mile from the river.
Although they afterward became common, I here saw for the first
time large platforms, on which were stored huge bundles of grass
ready for thatching the huts on the approach of the rainy season.
The two centre-poles of the platform, w...
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Among Africa (Paperback)
Verney Lovett Cameron
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R2,241
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Title: Our Future Highway i.e. the Euphrates Valley].Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Cameron, Verney Lovett; 1880. 2 vol.; 8 .
ORW.1986.a.2096
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