Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 6Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1873 - American literature |
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Page 63
... land waves rise in succession one above another , paling in the far distance until they resembled the milky - blue sky which domed them . each side extended sweet landscapes , bounded by shaggy forests , reposing under the tropic heaven ...
... land waves rise in succession one above another , paling in the far distance until they resembled the milky - blue sky which domed them . each side extended sweet landscapes , bounded by shaggy forests , reposing under the tropic heaven ...
Page 64
... Land of the Moon . The people are a mongrel race , a mixture of the tribes of the mountains and the interior table - land . The plains are rich in grain , and the hills with cattle . Milk , honey , eggs and clarified butter are sold by ...
... Land of the Moon . The people are a mongrel race , a mixture of the tribes of the mountains and the interior table - land . The plains are rich in grain , and the hills with cattle . Milk , honey , eggs and clarified butter are sold by ...
Page 65
... land spread before him . Unfortunately , too , the hasty , crude judgments which he passes upon the geography of the country are to be seen . On coming to the end of his Journal of the Dis- covery of the Source of the Nile , readers are ...
... land spread before him . Unfortunately , too , the hasty , crude judgments which he passes upon the geography of the country are to be seen . On coming to the end of his Journal of the Dis- covery of the Source of the Nile , readers are ...
Page 66
... Land of the Moon . In the " Fiery Field " began Speke's most notable adventures . He treats in this man- ner of shooting his first rhinoceros : " Having learned that the rhinoceros fre- quented a bitter pool in the neighborhood , I set ...
... Land of the Moon . In the " Fiery Field " began Speke's most notable adventures . He treats in this man- ner of shooting his first rhinoceros : " Having learned that the rhinoceros fre- quented a bitter pool in the neighborhood , I set ...
Page 67
... land . The travelers were delayed several months at Unyanyembe , but finally they set out to- wards the north - west with a considerably di- ... to polish him off . There was only one course to pursue , for in one instant more he would ...
... land . The travelers were delayed several months at Unyanyembe , but finally they set out to- wards the north - west with a considerably di- ... to polish him off . There was only one course to pursue , for in one instant more he would ...
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