... we cantered off to the distant villages. As we approached the first brook, but before the fringe of screening bushes was passed, our cavalcade drew rein abruptly, while Ahmah-de-Bellah cried out: " Strangers are coming ! " A few moments after, as... The African Repository - Page 3421854Full view - About this book
| Theodore Canot - Africa - 1854 - 510 pages
...ten or fifteen miles, and sweeps eastwardly to the horizon. The landscape, which declines from these slopes to the south, is in many places bare; yet fields...! " A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women crouched in the underwood, having fled from the bath. This warning... | |
| Brantz Mayer - Slave trade - 1854 - 502 pages
...ten or fifteen miles, and sweeps eastwardly to the horizon. The landscape, which declines from these slopes to the south, is in many places bare ; yet...! " A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women crouched in the underwood, having fled from the bath. This warning... | |
| Theophilus Conneau - 1854 - 380 pages
...to the picturesque scene. I soon proposed a gallop with my African kindred over the neighbourhood ; and, one fine morning, after a plentiful breakfast...was passed, our cavalcade drew rein abruptly, while Ahmah-de-Bella cried out : " Strangers are coming !" A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the... | |
| Theodore Canot - Africa - 1854 - 498 pages
...after a plentiful breakfast of stewed fowls, boiled to rags with rice, and seasoned with delicious ci palavra sauce," we cantered off to the distant villages....Ahmah-de-Bellah cried out: " Strangers are coming i " A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women crouched in the underwood,... | |
| Theophilus Conneau - Slave trade - 1855 - 330 pages
...to the picturesque scene. I soon proposed a gallop with my African kindred over the neighbourhood ; and, one fine morning, after a plentiful breakfast...drew rein abruptly, while Ahmah-de-Bellah cried out, " Strangnrs are coming!" A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women... | |
| W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...before the fringe of screening bushes was passed, our cavalcade drew rein abruptly, while Amahde-Bellah cried out, ' Strangers are coming ! ' A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women crouched in the underwood, having fled from the bath.' This warning... | |
| Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer - Slave trade - 1928 - 426 pages
...rural comfort to the scene. I soon proposed a gallop with my African kindred over the neighbourhood; and one fine morning, after a plentiful breakfast...coming!" A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women crouched in the underwood, having fled from the bath. In half an hour... | |
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