Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia: Performed in His Majesty's Ships, Leven and Baracouta from L821 to L826, Under the Command of Capt. F.W. Owen, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1835 - Africa, East |
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Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia: Performed ..., Volume 2 Thomas Boteler No preview available - 2015 |
Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia: Performed ..., Volume 2 Thomas Boteler No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 194 - He penetrated into a vast number of excavations and subterraneous canals, some of which are so deep that 400 men may work in them at once. In the mines were found cords, levers, tools of various kinds, vases, and lamps ; and the arrangement of the works afforded...
Page 441 - Georges . . . send warship look um what water bar ab got, dat good, me let um dat. Brudder send boat chopum slave, dat good. E no send warship, for cappen no peake me, no lookee me face. No, No, No; me tell you, No; Suppose you come all you mont full palaver, give e reason whye do it, me tell you, you peake lie, you peake lie, you peakeed-n lie.
Page 435 - The entrance of the Bonny presents a broad expanse of water, consisting of the mouth of the Bonny to the eastward, and the New Calabar to the westward. The former is the more considerable of the two, although they are both fine rivers, and. can be entered at any time of tide by vessels drawing from 12 to 18 feet of water.
Page 315 - ... seen, as also a hut and a native : the heavy sea, and the boisterous and cold weather that had before prevailed, changed into smooth water, and a mild, pleasant temperature. The Cape is formed by a precipitous mass rising at the extremity of a low projecting point, and resembling an island. It is incrusted by horizontal strata of different coloured earths and sand. On its summit was seen the pillar, or remains of the small marble cross, erected by Diaz.
Page 446 - Bonny, though often invited, will never venture on board a man-of-war, but sometimes visits the merchant vessels, proceeding from the shore in a war canoe in great form, but as he approaches he always keeps aloof till the compliment of a heavy salute is paid him. He then goes close to the ship's side and breaks a new-laid hen's egg against it, after which he ascends the deck fully persuaded that by the performance of this ceremony he has fortified himself against any act of treachery. For other reasons,...
Page 374 - ... teeth, and terminated in a confused display of feathers, blades of grass, and the stiff hairs of elephants and other large animals. From the top of his head the skin of a monkey hung pendant behind, having affixed to its tail a wire and a single elephant's hair with a large sheep's bell attached to the end. The skin was of a beautiful light green, with the head and neck of a rich vermilion. From his shoulders a fathom of blue dungaree with a striped white border hung down behind...
Page 376 - ... as if pointing to heaven, and demanding its vengeance on the dancers and the numerous bystanders around ; and in the latter as one who, finding his exhortations of no avail, was resolved to exterminate, in the might of his gigantic stature and superior strength, the refractory set. The master fetish was his constant attendant, always following, doubling, and facing him, with exhortations uttered at one minute in the most beseeching tone, accompanied hat in hand by obsequious bows, and in the...