Explorations in South-West Africa; Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Baines, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1230227407 ISBN 13: 9781230227405

Verlag: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...and Chapman shot a pair of the merganser (I think), the gander of which has a large fleshy protuberance upon the top of his beak. In the afternoon we found the trees (so bare and dry when we had passed up) putting forth their leaves vigorously. We saw the spoor of a lion, which from the retractile power of the claws is easily distinguished from that of animals whose toe-nails always project; and outspanned in what we were forced to call, for want of a better word, a valley, but which in fact was a depression so slight that it barely gave the rain an excuse for collecting in it. Monday, 30/t.--Our morning trek brought us to the northern side of the range of Kopjies; and after another careful reading over of the letters, we came to the conclusion that it would be imprudent to trust a load of ivory among the Hottentots until we had more fully ascertained their feelings towards us; not that we believe, for a moment, Amraal Lamert, the old chief, would himself be guilty of (or allow, if he could prevent it) anything dishonourable, but that the people, many of whom are beyond his power, and others who possess great influence where he is, and who are enraged with Chapman on account of the lung sickness, might force him to give way to their violence. We therefore retained our previouslywritten letters till we should know something more definite about the matter, and wrote fresh ones to be sent on by the same men next morning, purposing, until we received an answer, to encamp somewhere to the north of Koobie, and take one of the wagons empty on a hunting-trip. Tuesday, 31.--Arriving at the flat hill, Dokkie, through some misunderstanding, turned into our by-road, and drove nearly down to Quarantine. He then broke the dissel-boom in turning round...

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• Verlag: TheClassics.us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230227407
• ISBN 13: 9781230227405
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140