A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile JournalW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 452 páginas |
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A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Vista completa - 1864 |
A Walk Across Africa: Or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal James Augustus Grant Vista completa - 1864 |
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Africa amongst animals antelope appeared Arab arms arrival asked bank bark-cloth beads Berber birds Blue Nile boat Bombay brought Budja called camels camp canoe Captain Speke carried cattle cloth colour covered cowries dressed drums Faloro feet fowls Frij goats Gondokoro grain grass guns hair hands handsome head heard hills horns hour houses hundred iron ivory journey Kamarasi Karague Karuma Falls Khartoom Kidi killed king lake leaves loads looked M'tessa Madi Manua Mariboo miles morning musquitoes natives never night Nile Nyanza party passed placed plantain plundered porters present race rain river rocks round Rumanika sand Seedees seen sent shot skin slaves sorghum spears stream sultan sweet potato tall told Toorkees traveller trees Turks tusks Uganda Unyamuezi Unyoro Victoria Nyanza village Waganda walked Wanyoro Watusi Wezee White Nile wild wind women yards Zanzibar
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Página 232 - Each officer of a district would seem to have a different mode of drill. The Wazeewah, with long sticks, were remarkably well-disciplined, shouting and marching all in regular time, every club going through the same movement ; the most attractive part of the drill being when all crouched simultaneously, and then advanced in open ranks, swinging their bodies to the roll of their drums. By such means Kimera soon contrived to make himself so powerful that his very name was dreaded throughout Unyoro,...
Página 131 - One morning, to my surprise, in a wild jungle we came upon cattle, then upon a ' bomah,' or ring-fence, concealed by beautiful umbrageous large trees, quite the place for a gipsy camp. At the entry, two strapping fellows met me and invited my approach. I mingled with the people, got water from them, and was asked, 'Would I prefer some milk?' This sounded to me more civilised than I expected from Africans, so I followed the men, who led me up to a beautiful lady-like creature, a Watusi woman, sitting...
Página 183 - Prince M'nanagee, at my request, sent the best player he knew. The man boldly entered without introduction, dressed in the usual Wanyambo costume, and looked a wild, excited creature. After resting his spear against the roof of the hut, he took a nanga from under his arm, and commenced. As he sat upon a mat with his head averted, he sang something of his having been sent to me, and of the favorite dog Keeromba. The wild yet gentle music and words attracted a crowd of admirers, who sang the dog-song...
Página 108 - Nothing whatever was done to her, though she had once before been the cause of a man's death under similar circumstances. Previous to this event she would come often to look at herself in my mirror, but afterwards I did not see so much of her. Several of our men made brotherhood with the "Wezees, and the process between Bombay and the sultan's son, Keerenga, may be mentioned. My consent having been given, a mat is spread, and a confidential party or surgeon attends on each. All four squat, as if...
Página 101 - ... have passed agreeably enough, until the time came for him to leave his entertainer, whose hospitality was to be measured by the number of presents he received. Among other curious customs, it seems that this potentate never makes a royal speech without a most singular accompaniment : — " For an hour the Sultan addressed the crowd, sometimes stopping to think, and pulling out hairs from his face with iron tongs. There were bursts of laughter at his jokes, and when he had finished, a general...
Página 70 - Nyambo girls, who, in the bloom of youth, sat together with their arms affectionately twined round each other's neck, and, when asked to separate that they might be sketched, their arms were dropped at once, showing their necks and busts to be of the finest form. Their woolly hair was combed out, and raised up from the forehead and over their ears by a broad band from the skin of a milkwhite cow, which contrasted strangely with their transparent, light-copper skins. The Waha women are like them,...
Página 193 - Kitangule, which had been so often named to us as an old ivory depot, and the stream by which wood was floated down from Ruanda, was rather disappointing. Standing upon its steep shelving bank of white gravel, the stream is almost hidden by the papyrus, which lines its sides in a depth of from twenty to sixty yards ; but when ferrying it, its majestic flow is seen. The canoes here were of one log of timber hollowed out, fifteen feet long, the breadth of an easy-chair as you sat in them, and capable...