The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 |
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Page 160
... feet seven inches in height , with enormous limbs . They wear false hair like horses ' tails , made of fine twine smeared with grease , and red ochre to give it the fashionable colour . The passion for beads , the jewelry of Africa , is ...
... feet seven inches in height , with enormous limbs . They wear false hair like horses ' tails , made of fine twine smeared with grease , and red ochre to give it the fashionable colour . The passion for beads , the jewelry of Africa , is ...
Page 162
... feet , Mr. Baker and his party traversed valleys situate between hills from 1500 to 2000 feet high ; on the tops of each of which were perched villages , their positions evidently having been chosen for security . The air was invigo ...
... feet , Mr. Baker and his party traversed valleys situate between hills from 1500 to 2000 feet high ; on the tops of each of which were perched villages , their positions evidently having been chosen for security . The air was invigo ...
Page 164
... feet in height , but descend regularly over a ledge of rock , extending like a wall across the river . The party were ferried across the stream and entered the territory of King Kamrasi . It is remarkable that in proportion as the ...
... feet in height , but descend regularly over a ledge of rock , extending like a wall across the river . The party were ferried across the stream and entered the territory of King Kamrasi . It is remarkable that in proportion as the ...
Page 166
... feet above its level . ' It is impossible to describe the triumph of that moment ; here was the reward for all our labour - for the years of tenacity with which we had toiled through Africa . England had won the sources of the Nile ...
... feet above its level . ' It is impossible to describe the triumph of that moment ; here was the reward for all our labour - for the years of tenacity with which we had toiled through Africa . England had won the sources of the Nile ...
Page 169
... feet in height , and compressed within a gorge scarcely fifty yards in width , the river made a clear leap of a hundred and twenty feet perpendicu- lar into the abyss below . This great waterfall Mr. Baker named the Murchison Falls ...
... feet in height , and compressed within a gorge scarcely fifty yards in width , the river made a clear leap of a hundred and twenty feet perpendicu- lar into the abyss below . This great waterfall Mr. Baker named the Murchison Falls ...
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