Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition (1890) (14781586944)

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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..

Year: 1890 (1890s)

Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp

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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a, ared pigment made from the cam-wood, and much used as anornament. She was accompanied by about a dozen young andold female attendants, each carrying a small basket with someprovisions, as cassava, ground-nuts, etc. The Arabs were alldressed in their finery, and the slaves, in fantastic dresses,flourished swords, fired guns, and yelled. When shewas brought to Hamees hut she descended, and with hermaids went into the hut. She and her attendants all hadsmall, neat features. I had been sitting with Hamees, andnow rose up and went away. As I passed him, he spoke thus tohimself: * Hamees Wadim Tagh! see to what j^ou havebrought yourself? Nsama had been a great conqueror in his time, and withbows and arrows as the arms of his enemies, he was invinci-ble; but the Arabs had of course been provided with fire-arms, and it was to the supremacy of weapons, not of general-ship, that he had been obliged to yield so far as to consent toa peace. Dr. Livingstone visited his village, Itawa, and found

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Livingstones last journey. 383 the people particularly handsome. N^ama was very gracious,and promised guides and porters; but showed so much dis-trust that the traveler finally decided to go on without theproffered assistance. Keeping to the north of Nsamas country after this briefvisit, the party moved westward until it reached the north endof Moero. This was Nov. 8; it was the rainy season again,and the explorer was obliged to be very careful where hetraveled, lest he again fall a victim to that fever against whichhe was now defenseless. Their next visit of note was to a chief of Lunda, called theCasembe. This word, which means simply a general, has beenapplied as a proper name both to the chief and to the villagewhere he lives. The Portuguese had used it in the lattersense; and their various observations as to the location of thevillage Casembe did not agree very closely, for the simplereason that each Casembe, as he came into office, removed thevillage from its previous site to on

Стэнли и белые герои в Африке - это издание поздних личных писем мистера Стэнли об экспедиции по оказанию помощи Эмину-паше 1890 г. книжные иллюстрации путешествие и описание высокое разрешение изображения из интернет-архива библиотека Конгресса

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