 | 1864 - 814 páginas
...fine high grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet. Unfortunately, the chief district officer, Mlondo, was... | |
 | 1864 - 940 páginas
...high, grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnii and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and fiorikan and guinea fowl rising at our feet." * Following up the left bank of the river, after passing... | |
 | John Hanning Speke - 1863 - 758 páginas
...grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebees^ could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guineafowl rising at our feet. Unfortunately, the chief district officer, Mlondo, was... | |
 | 1864 - 990 páginas
...high grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the i; mini, and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet" The falls are represented, to use Captain Speke's own... | |
 | 1864 - 922 páginas
...high, grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea fowl rising at our feet." * • Following up the left bank of the river, after... | |
 | David Page - 1864 - 352 páginas
...high grassy banks, with rich trees and plantations in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing; while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and fiorikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet."] 174. The rivers of South America constitute by far the... | |
 | 1864 - 398 páginas
...fine high grassy banks with rich trees and plantains in the back-ground, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea fowl rising at our feet." Elephants were very numerous in the district, as appeared... | |
 | 1864 - 806 páginas
...fine high grassy hanks, with rich trees and plantains in the hackground,4\hcre herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet. Unfortunately, the chief district officer, Mlondo, was... | |
 | David Page - 1864 - 374 páginas
...banks, with rich trees and plantations in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and bartebeest could be seen grazing ; while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet."] 174. The rivers of South America constitute by far the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 páginas
...grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebcest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet." — p. 459. From this point Captain Speke, still alone,... | |
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... to 700 yards wide, dotted with islets and rocks, the former occupied by fishermen's huts, the latter by sterns and crocodiles basking in the sun — flowing between fine high grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds... 
