A Visit to Stanley's Rearguard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi: With an Account of the River-life on the Congo |
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... coming , as it did , just when I was free from other engagements , gave a definite direction to my plans . The circumstances which led to my going are as follows : - In the beginning of 1886 , happening to be at Antwerp - where I had ...
... coming , as it did , just when I was free from other engagements , gave a definite direction to my plans . The circumstances which led to my going are as follows : - In the beginning of 1886 , happening to be at Antwerp - where I had ...
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... coming at last to a small court- yard over which an awning had been placed to keep out the sun . Here we found a table ready laid for lunch , down the centre of which stood a row of decanters con- taining no less than twenty - one ...
... coming at last to a small court- yard over which an awning had been placed to keep out the sun . Here we found a table ready laid for lunch , down the centre of which stood a row of decanters con- taining no less than twenty - one ...
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... coming event was celebrated almost daily by a tremendous waste of gunpowder , and nightly , by an equal ex- penditure of gas and rockets . At last , on May 6th , all was ready for departure , and heartily glad was I to be off once more ...
... coming event was celebrated almost daily by a tremendous waste of gunpowder , and nightly , by an equal ex- penditure of gas and rockets . At last , on May 6th , all was ready for departure , and heartily glad was I to be off once more ...
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... Coming on deck on the morning of May 29th , I noticed that the sea looked black as pitch . We were still nearly 100 miles out at sea , and the colour of the water , which , astern , was lashed by the propeller into a blackish - green ...
... Coming on deck on the morning of May 29th , I noticed that the sea looked black as pitch . We were still nearly 100 miles out at sea , and the colour of the water , which , astern , was lashed by the propeller into a blackish - green ...
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... coming from the south - west . This river - heard of , but not seen , by Livingstone , and called by him Young's River - has its sources , according to Capello and Ivens , in Katanga , about 8 ° south , and is by some authorities looked ...
... coming from the south - west . This river - heard of , but not seen , by Livingstone , and called by him Young's River - has its sources , according to Capello and Ivens , in Katanga , about 8 ° south , and is by some authorities looked ...
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Africa Arabs arrived Aruhwimi ashore Author Baert Bakumu Banana Bangala bank Basoko began Belgian boat Bolobo Boma brought camp canoe Captain Coquilhat cartridges cataract chief cloth coast Congo Free Crown 8vo Deane Deane's Dhanis Emin Pasha engine English Engravings Europe Europeans expedition Fcap feet fever forest heard Henry Reed hills Houssas huge huts Illustrations Isangila island ivory Jameson Kerckhoven Lake latter leaving Léopold Léopoldville loads Lomami look Lukolela Major Barttelot Manyemas Matadi miles missionaries morning natives nearly Ngala night Nshassa Oubangi passed Post 8vo Professor railway reached river round Salim Samba Scotland Second Edition sent Shagerstrom slaves soon Stanley Falls Stanley Pool Stanley's steamed steamer tion Tippoo Tip Tippu Tip told took tribes turned University of Edinburgh Upoto Upper Congo village Vivi vols Ward whale-boat women wood Yambuya Zanzibaris
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