Stories of Exploration and DiscoveryUniversity Press, 1915 - 198 síður |
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Africa Asia Atlantic Australia Baffin Baffin Bay became began Blue Nile boat Bruce Cabot canoes Cape Captain century CHAPTER Columbus continent Cook Cortes crew crossed dangers desert discovered discovery Drake east coast England English entered Europe expedition exploration Eyre fleet Flinders Fort Chipewyan Franklin Frobisher further gave Geography Golden Hind Gondar Gondokoro Greenland Gulf harbour Henry Hispaniola Hudson Indians island journey Khan King Lake Lancaster Sound land later Livingstone Mackenzie Magellan Mahommedans Makololo maps Mexico miles mountains Mungo Park natives Niger Nile Norsemen North America Ocean Pacific Park party passed Pizarro Pole Polo Port Jackson Portugal Portuguese Prester John Ralegh reached the coast region resolved river round route sailed sailors sent settlement ships soon Spain Spaniards Spanish Speke Stanley story Strait stream took trade travellers Ujiji Victoria Nyanza voyage
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Síða 36 - Beside a quantity of fresh weeds, such as grow in rivers, they saw a green fish of a kind which keeps about rocks ; then a branch of thorn with berries on it, and recently separated from the tree, floated by them ; then they picked up a reed, a small board, and, above all, a staff artificially carved.
Síða 129 - I did not comprehend it until, creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi...
Síða 2 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Síða 104 - The care and attention of Dr. Laidley contributed greatly to alleviate my sufferings ; his company and conversation- beguiled the tedious hours during that gloomy season, when the rain falls in torrents ' when suffocating heats oppress by day, and when the night is spent by the terrified traveller in listening to the croaking of frogs (of which the numbers are beyond imagination), the shrill cry of the jackal, and the deep howling of the hysena ; a dismal concert, interrupted only by the roar of...
Síða 124 - Waganda fishermen coming out in boats and taking post on all the rocks with rod and hook, hippopotami and crocodiles lying sleepily on the water, the ferry at work above the falls, and cattle driven down to drink at the margin of the lake...
Síða 93 - Besides, for solace of our people, and allurement of the savages, we were provided of music in good variety ; not omitting the least toys, as morrisdancers, hobby-horse, and May-like conceits to delight the savage people, whom we intended to win by all fair means possible.
Síða 81 - Majesty's name, the day and year of our arrival there, with the free giving up of the province and people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness...
Síða 84 - ... perceived a number of small things floating in the sea afar off, which he supposed to be porpoises, or seals, or some kind of strange fish; but coming nearer, he discovered them to be men in small boats made of leather...
Síða 106 - Being totally blind, she stroked his hands, arms, and face, with great care, and seemed highly delighted that her latter days were blessed by his return, and that her ears once more heard the music of his voice. From this interview I was fully convinced, that whatever difference there is between the Negro and European in the conformation of the nose and the colour of the skin, there is none in the genuine sympathies and characteristic feelings of our common nature.
Síða 136 - A secret rapture filled my soul as I gazed upon the majestic stream. The great mystery that for all these centuries Nature had kept hidden away from the world of science was waiting to be solved. For two hundred and twenty miles...