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... beads . The piratical ex- pedition being complete , he pays his men five months ' wages in advance , at the rate of forty - five piastres ( nine shillings ) per month , and he agrees to give them eighty piastres per month for any period ...
... beads . The piratical ex- pedition being complete , he pays his men five months ' wages in advance , at the rate of forty - five piastres ( nine shillings ) per month , and he agrees to give them eighty piastres per month for any period ...
Page 39
... beads and bracelets , but declined a knife as useless . They went away delighted with their presents . The women perforate the upper lip , and wear an ornament about four inches long of beads upon an iron wire ; this projects like the ...
... beads and bracelets , but declined a knife as useless . They went away delighted with their presents . The women perforate the upper lip , and wear an ornament about four inches long of beads upon an iron wire ; this projects like the ...
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... beads , with a crest of white ostrich - feathers ; but the mantle was merely slung over his shoulders , and all other parts of his person were naked . His daughter was the best - looking girl that I have seen among the blacks ; she was ...
... beads , with a crest of white ostrich - feathers ; but the mantle was merely slung over his shoulders , and all other parts of his person were naked . His daughter was the best - looking girl that I have seen among the blacks ; she was ...
Page 59
... beads , or of small iron rings , worked like a coat of mail , in lieu of a fig - leaf , and the usual tail of fine shreds of leather or twine , spun from indigenous cotton , pendant behind . Both the lappet and tail are fastened on a ...
... beads , or of small iron rings , worked like a coat of mail , in lieu of a fig - leaf , and the usual tail of fine shreds of leather or twine , spun from indigenous cotton , pendant behind . Both the lappet and tail are fastened on a ...
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... beads as a tax for the right of sitting under a shady tree , or for passing through the country . The traders ' people , in order to terrify them into submission , were in the habit of binding them , hands and feet , and carrying them ...
... beads as a tax for the right of sitting under a shady tree , or for passing through the country . The traders ' people , in order to terrify them into submission , were in the habit of binding them , hands and feet , and carrying them ...
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Abyssinia accordingly Africa African elephant Albert lake animals antelopes appeared Arabs arrived Atbara attack Bacheeta Baker bank Bari beads Blue Nile boats buffalo camels camp canoe carried cattle CHAP chief commenced Commoro crowd dead deserted distance donkeys Edit elephant Ellyria English expedition feet Filfil fire following morning formed giraffes Globe 8vo Gondokoro ground guns head heard herd high grass hippopotami horse hour hundred Ibrahim Illustrated immediately ivory journey jungle Kamrasi Karuma Karuma Falls Katchiba Khartoum killed king Koorshid Latooka loads M'rooli Magungo Mahommed marsh miles mountains natives night Obbo party passed plantains porters present procure Prof rain razzia Richarn rifle river rocks rushed Saat savage season Shooa shot slaves Sobat Speke Speke and Grant spot stream Tétel town traders trees tribe Turks tusks Unyoro vakeel Victoria Nile village vols waterbuck White Nile wife wild women yards
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Page 381 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...