In Darkest Africa: Or, the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, Volumes 1-2Scribner, 1913 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
In Darkest Africa; Or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of ... Henry Morton Stanley Visualização integral - 1904 |
In Darkest Africa (Vol. 1&2): The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin ... Henry M. Stanley Pré-visualização limitada - 2021 |
In Darkest Africa: The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria Henry M. Stanley Pré-visualização limitada - 2022 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
advance Africa Albert Nyanza ammunition Ankori Arab arrived arrows Aruwimi Balegga Banalya bananas Bangala bank boat Bodo Bolobo Bonny bush camp canoes Captain Nelson caravan carriers Casati cattle chief command Congo corn deserted despatched Effendi Egypt Egyptian Emin Pasha Equatorial Province Expedition feet forest friends goats grass halt heard huts Ibwiri Ipoto Ituri Ituri River Jameson Jephson journey July June Kavalli Kavalli's Khartoum Khedive Lake Albert land leave letter Lieutenant Stairs loads Madis Major Barttelot manioc Manyuema Mazamboni's miles Mohammed months morning mountain Mswa natives night Nile Nsabé Nubar Pasha officers pigmies plantains reached rear column relief rifles river road Ruwenzori Selim Bey Semliki Semliki River sent settlement shore sick slopes soldiers Soudan Soudanese Stanley Falls station steamer stream Tippu-Tib trees tribes Uganda Ugarrowwa's Unyoro valley village Wadelai Wahuma WILLIAM BONNY wounded Yambuya yards Zanzibaris
Passagens conhecidas
Página 288 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Página 66 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 306 - Therefore I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Página 309 - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them : for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee ; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Página 476 - ... never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here!
Página 427 - I saw a peculiar shaped cloud of a most beautiful silver colour, which assumed the proportions and appearance of a vast mountain covered with snow. Following its form downward, I became struck with the deep blue-black colour of its base, and wondered if it portended another tornado ; then as the sight descended to the gap between the eastern and western plateaus, I became for the first time conscious that what I gazed upon was not the image or semblance of a vast mountain, but the solid substance...
Página 423 - God knows, if ever man had reason to think of ' graves and worms and oblivion,' and to be doleful and lonely and sad, Mackay had, when, after murdering his bishop, and burning his pupils, and strangling his converts, and clubbing to death his dark friends, Mwanga turned his eye of death on him. And yet the little man met it with calm blue eyes that never winked. To see one man of this kind, working day after day for twelve years bravely, and without a syllable of complaint or a moan amid the
Página 116 - If you do not meet them in the course of two days' march, you may rest assured that you are not on our route. It may happen, also, that though Tippu-Tib has sent some men, he has not sent enough to carry the goods with your own force. In that case you will, of course, use your discretion as to what goods you can dispense with to enable you to march. For this purpose you should study your list attentively.
Página 141 - ... from Wadelai, and I promised them to do my best to assist them. Things having to some extent now changed, you will be able to make them undergo whatever conditions you see fit to impose upon them.
Página 306 - From the Mountains of the Moon the Egyptian Nile takes its rise. It cuts horizontally the equator in its course north. Many rivers come from this mountain and unite in a great lake. From this lake comes the Nile, the most beautiful and greatest of the rivers of all the earth.