An Ivory Trader in North Kenia: The Record of an Expedition Through Kikuyu to Galla-land in East Equatorial Africa. With an Account of the Rendili and Burkeneji TribesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 368 страници |
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... ourselves . We had pitched our tent just outside the town of Nairobi , and proceeded to get together our loads of camp equipment , trade goods , and provisions : no easy task on an expedition such as ours , where the number of carriers ...
... ourselves . We had pitched our tent just outside the town of Nairobi , and proceeded to get together our loads of camp equipment , trade goods , and provisions : no easy task on an expedition such as ours , where the number of carriers ...
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... ourselves with something eatable till everything was more or less amicably settled . Nothing is more characteristic of the difference in the races than the way in which they carry their loads . The Swahilis and Wa'Nyamwezi , being used ...
... ourselves with something eatable till everything was more or less amicably settled . Nothing is more characteristic of the difference in the races than the way in which they carry their loads . The Swahilis and Wa'Nyamwezi , being used ...
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... ourselves . We were fated to hear a great deal more of them before the end of our trip . In the evening I received a private note from one of the Government officers , informing me that we were likely to have a certain amount of trouble ...
... ourselves . We were fated to hear a great deal more of them before the end of our trip . In the evening I received a private note from one of the Government officers , informing me that we were likely to have a certain amount of trouble ...
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... ourselves in a swamp , through which we had to wade for over a mile before reach- ing firm ground . Then the porters struck in a body , saying they were done up and utterly exhausted , and could 26 THROUGH KIKUYU TO GALLA - LAND .
... ourselves in a swamp , through which we had to wade for over a mile before reach- ing firm ground . Then the porters struck in a body , saying they were done up and utterly exhausted , and could 26 THROUGH KIKUYU TO GALLA - LAND .
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... ourselves all the afternoon by pulling the raft to and fro across the river with two loads on at a time . We had all the loads safely across by five o'clock in the afternoon , and then proceeded to get the men across by the same means ...
... ourselves all the afternoon by pulling the raft to and fro across the river with two loads on at a time . We had all the loads safely across by five o'clock in the afternoon , and then proceeded to get the men across by the same means ...
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A'kikuyu afternoon animals appeared bank beads beast Bei-Munithu boma Borana bullet bush camels cartridges cattle cloth CO.'S STANDARD coloured crossed Crown 8vo donkeys Doum palms Edition El Hakim elephant Embe Essays feet fire Gifford Lectures gilt edges gilt top grantei grass Green Camp guides Hakim and George half herd hippopotamus hour hundred yards Illustrations Ismail Jamah journey Jumbi Kenia Lake Rudolph large numbers LL.D loads LONGMANS & CO.'S Lorian M'thara Maps Maragua Maranga Masai Max Müller meat MESSRS miles mule Munithu N'Dominuki Nairobi natives night o'clock once ourselves palms path Plates porters Portrait Ramathani reached Rendili rhino rhinoceros rifle river round Sadi ben safari sheep shooting shot shouted side Somalis spear Swahilis swamp tent tions took tribe turned tusk village vols Wa'Embe Wa'kamba waited walked Wandorobbo Waso Nyiro Wasungu zebra Zura