Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: Including the Substance of the Late Dr. Leyden's Work on that Subject, 2. kötetA. Constable, 1818 |
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249. oldal - Travels in Europe and Africa : comprising a Journey through France, Spain, and Portugal, to Morocco, with a particular Account of that Empire.
306. oldal - In his name they rush to battle, and encounter their foes with Spartan intrepidity. One of them said to Mr. Norris, "I think of my king, and then I dare engage five of the enemy myself." He added, "my head belongs to the king, and not to myself; if he please to send for it. I am ready to resign it ; or if it be shot through in a buttle, 1 am satisfied, since it is in his service.
490. oldal - Corailium nibrum, is fished up in the Red Sea. It grows much slower than the madrepores, and never occurs in such masses. It is found at different depths, and it is remarked, says Professor Jameson, that light exerts a powerful influence on its growth as well as on its colour, the tint being darker in proportion to the deepness of the sea. The Sponges consist of an entirely ramified mass of capillary tubes, and were at one...
538. oldal - ... they are extremely hot at certain times of the year, when their blood putrefies so, that if it were not for that salt, they would die: but they take a little bit of the said salt, and dissolve it in a cup with a little water, and drink it every day, with which they say that they preserve their health. The said salt is carried to Melli by the foresaid camels in large pieces, hollowed from the mine, each camel carrying two pieces. At Tombuctoo, the negroes break it into more pieces, so that each...
297. oldal - Ashantec. aigris aigris is a stone of a greenish blue colour supposed to be a species of jasper, small perforated pieces of which, valued at their weight in gold, are used for money...
537. oldal - It comes from the mountain of the moon which lies beyond the equator. Many sources come from this mountain and unite in a great lake. From this lake comes the Nile, the greatest and most beautiful of the rivers of all the earth.
484. oldal - ... insects were driven into, the sea by a tempestuous north-west wind, and were afterwards cast upon the beach, where it is said they formed a bank of three Or four feet high...