Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts, Volume 5Lippincott, Grambo [& Company,], 1854 |
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... lassitude , and selfishness , may account for the insensibility to the claims of justice and humanity which seems to have characterised both regions . ' JOURNEY FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE RED SEA . AVING CHRISTIAN SLAVERY IN BARBARY .
... lassitude , and selfishness , may account for the insensibility to the claims of justice and humanity which seems to have characterised both regions . ' JOURNEY FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE RED SEA . AVING CHRISTIAN SLAVERY IN BARBARY .
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JOURNEY FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE RED SEA . AVING occasion to sojourn for a time on the western coast of Africa , I was anxious to know something of the people of the interior of that vast continent , concerning whom so many conflict- ing ...
JOURNEY FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE RED SEA . AVING occasion to sojourn for a time on the western coast of Africa , I was anxious to know something of the people of the interior of that vast continent , concerning whom so many conflict- ing ...
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... Gambia offered me a passage in his vessel ; and as he was going to sail up that noble river , I gladly availed myself of this opportunity of getting an insight into the interior of Africa . On our passage , we stopped at Bissao , a ...
... Gambia offered me a passage in his vessel ; and as he was going to sail up that noble river , I gladly availed myself of this opportunity of getting an insight into the interior of Africa . On our passage , we stopped at Bissao , a ...
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... Gambia , propelled by the sea - breeze , which blows during the day , unless when it is overpowered by a strong harmattan from the desert , or by a tornado - which always comes from the east . At night , we were obliged to anchor ...
... Gambia , propelled by the sea - breeze , which blows during the day , unless when it is overpowered by a strong harmattan from the desert , or by a tornado - which always comes from the east . At night , we were obliged to anchor ...
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... used together in alternate strips of narrow cloth . A white cap usually covers the head . The garments used by the women are very 4 simple and becoming . They consist of two pieces of JOURNEY FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE RED SEA .
... used together in alternate strips of narrow cloth . A white cap usually covers the head . The garments used by the women are very 4 simple and becoming . They consist of two pieces of JOURNEY FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE RED SEA .
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