The World and Its People, Book 7Larkin Dunton Silver, Burdett, 1896 |
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abundance Abyssinia ancient animals Arabs Atlas Mountains banks beasts beautiful bird Boers Bushmen camel Cape Colony cattle CHAPTER chief climate coast color Congo Congo River course covered cultivated desert distance Dutch east Egypt Egyptians elephant elevated European explorers extends falls fertile fifty flows forest grass ground herds hills hippopotamus Hottentots hundred feet hundred miles huts interior Isangila island Kaffir lake Lake Tchad land Livingstone Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea mountains mouth natives Niger Nile northern Nubia Orange Free Orange River ostrich plains plant plateau portion rain region rise rocks Sahara sand season Senegal Senegambia shore side skin slaves soil South Africa South African Republic species Stanley stone stream table-land territory thousand feet tion town tract trade traveler trees tribes Tripoli tropical Tunis valley various vast vegetation Victoria Nyanza villages wild wind women Zambesi
Popular passages
Page 326 - Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and presently before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone through the jungle on his all-fours ; but when he saw our party he erected himself and looked us boldly in the face. He stood about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think never to forget.
Page 325 - ... by the eager and satisfied looks of the men. They looked once more carefully at their guns, to see if by any chance the powder had fallen out of the pans ; I also examined mine, to make sure that all was right ; and then we marched on cautiously. The singular noise of the breaking of tree-branches continued. We walked with the greatest care, making no noise at all. The countenances...
Page 327 - ... which we find pictured by old artists in some representations of the infernal regions. He advanced a few steps, then stopped to utter that hideous roar again, advanced again, and finally stopped when at a distance of about six yards from us. And here, just as he began another of his roars, beating his breast in rage, we fired, and killed him.
Page 125 - Nothing, in sooth, could be more picturesque than this first view of the Tanganyika Lake, as it lay in the lap of the mountains, basking in the gorgeous tropical sunshine.
Page 371 - Finding that we were quickly gaining upon them, the male at once slackened his pace, and diverged somewhat from his course ; but, seeing that we were not to be diverted from our purpose, he again increased his speed, and, with wings drooping so as almost to touch the ground, he hovered round us, now in wide circles, and then decreasing the circumference till he came almost within pistol-shot, when he...
Page 126 - ... landscape, which, like all the fairest prospects in these regions, wants but a little of the neatness and finish of art — mosques and kiosks, palaces and villas, gardens and orchards — contrasting with the profuse lavishness and magnificence of nature, and diversifying the unbroken coup cfceil of excessive vegetation, to rival, if not to excel, the most admired scenery of the classic regions.
Page 355 - A whirling cloud of dust keeps pace with the courser's fiery motion. Croaking companion of their flight, the vulture whirs on high; Below, the terror of the fold, the panther fierce and sly, And hyenas foul, round graves that prowl, join in the horrid race; By the footprints wet with gore and sweat, their monarch's course they trace. They see him on his living throne, and quake with fear the while; With claws of steel he tears piecemeal his cushion's painted pile.
Page 326 - He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar. The roar of the gorilla is the most singular and awful noise heard in these African woods.
Page 429 - You startle me; these words make all my bones to shake — I have no more strength in me ; but my forefathers were living at the same time yours were, and how is it that they did not send them word about these...
Page 126 - Villages, cultivated lands, the frequent canoes of the fishermen on the waters, and on a nearer approach the murmurs of the waves breaking upon the shore, give a something of variety, of movement, of life to the landscape, which, like all the fairest prospects in these regions, wants but a little of the neatness and finish of art — mosques and kiosks, palaces and villas, gardens and orchards — contrasting with the profuse lavishness and magnificence of nature...