The Last of Free Africa: The Account of an Expedition Into Abyssinia, with Observations on the Manners, Customs and Traditions of the Ethiopians with Some Pungent Remarks on the Anomalous Political Situation That, at Present, Obtains Between this Ancient Kingdom and the Nations of the WorldCentury Company, 1928 - 361 strani |
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The Last of Free Africa: The Account of an Expedition Into Abyssinia, with ... Gordon MacCreagh Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1928 |
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Stran 24 - of the north and the south and the east and the west of
Stran vii - distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Stran 314 - I took my bath an' I wallered, for, Gawd, I needed it so.
Stran 283 - I told him who I was and what I wanted to do. He
Stran 350 - country through rocky channels that might well have sunk a much more stable ship of
Stran 201 - in toto of the Ethiopian Government's sound policy of letting slavery die out with the existing generation, rather than
Stran 39 - The only people in Africa who have won a war and exacted an indemnity from a European power.
Stran 173 - church, is still imported from the now Coptic church of Alexandria. The
Stran 189 - just as it used to be in the good old days of
Stran vii - The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either void of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues: here are no Hottentots without religion, polity or articulate language; no Chinese perfectly polite, and completely skilled in all sciences: He will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial enquirer,...