Liberia. With an Appendix on the Flora of Liberia, by Dr. Otto Stapf, 28 Coloured Illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 Botanical Drawings by Miss Matilda Smith, 402 Black and White Illustrations from the Author's Drawings and from Photographs by the Author and Others, 22 Maps by Mrs. J.W. Addison, Capt. H.D. Pearson, R.E., Lieut. E.W. Cox, R.E., and the Author, Količina 2Hutchinson & Company, 1906 |
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Americo-Liberians amongst animal Ansell antelope Auriv axillary Basā Benth birds bracts branches brown bush Bütt Büttik Büttikofer Buzi calyx Cape Palmas Cavalla Cavalla River Cephalophus climbing shrub clusters coast region Coll colour common Congo coriaceous leaves corolla corymbs cultivated dense Dinklage Doalu Dukwia east Eastern European female Fishtown fruits Fula Galago genus glabrous glabrous shrub globose Gora Grand Basa Grebo greenish grey hair hairy head herb horns interior Kakatown Kpwesi lanceolate languages Liberia lobes male Mandingo Monrovia Muhammadan native Negro Niger Notes Leyd oblong palm panicles papilionaceous flowers Paul's River petals petioles Photograph pods race racemes Reisebilder Liberia Reynolds Schum sepals sheep shrub Sierra Leone Sino Basin Sino River skin slender South species specimen spikelets spikes Stapf tail tribes upper Vogel Water chevrotain West Africa Western Liberia Whicker white flowers Whyte Wolof women yellow yellowish
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Stran 1108 - In the same way the messenger showed him how a great number of other words could be written. At last Doalu asked his instructor concerning the contents of the book he had brought. But the answer was, ' Wait a 1 For some unexplained reason, Koelle, ordinarily so accurate in his orthography, writes this word " Vei," though it is most distinctly pronounced I'ai. little, I will tell you by-and-by.
Stran 851 - It is not due to phosphorescence, but (according to entomological authorities) to " the slow oxidation of a substance formed under the influence of the nervous system.
Stran 1036 - I have no hesitation myself (after long experience of these institutions in many parts of Africa) in saying that they are merely instrumental in keeping the Negroes who still practise them in a state of savagery.
Stran 1128 - Yes, friend, good morning; whence art thou coming? Is all well afar off?" "War is here, only far off all is good now yonder.
Stran 1070 - thrown down on the ground,' they ' gnash with their teeth,' they appear dead, while they utter strange, unearthly sounds, they ' pine away.' Whenever any of the above marks appear in an individual, he is said to be ' possessed,' and is at once placed with an old 'Deya,' to be instructed in the arts and mysteries of the profession.
Stran 572 - West-African flora, or extending over larger parts of the tropics. As might be expected, Liberia, to judge by the little we know, presents itself * See note on p. 115. as a section, with rather artificial boundaries, of the great natural region which extends from the Senegal in the north to the Kunene in the south. Its flora has, no doubt, a strong local colouring, but it is rather of the specific than the generic order. Its nearest affinity is, of course, with Sierra Leone, and not a few of the...
Stran 1069 - ... association to go abroad ; often at midnight, on the outskirts of the town, or in the adjoining bush, a sudden, discordant shrieking, whistling, yelling, hideous noise bursts forth, as if scores of spirits had been let loose from the lower world, and as if their object was to frighten man from the earth. In a tumultuous body they run around and through the town. Women and children fly affrighted into their houses, and close them up, for a heavy fine would be the penalty of their seeing and being...
Stran 787 - AT Demery in the district of Grand Cape Mount. Op. cit. xii. pp. 197-206 (1890). (6) . Reisebilder aus Liberia. Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer Untersuchungen wahrend der Jahre 1879-82 und 1886-7. 2 vols. Leyden, 1890. 8vo. Vogel, ii. pp. 397-434, plates xxx., xxxi. (7) . On a Collection of Birds sent by the late AT Demery from the Sulima River (West Africa). Notes from the Leyden Museum, xiv.
Stran 1108 - I am sent to bring this book to you, in order that you should take it to the rest of the people. But I must tell you, that neither you, nor any one who will become acquainted with the book, are allowed to eat the flesh of dogs and monkeys, nor of any thing found dead, whose throat was not cut ; nor to touch the book on those days on which you have touched the fruit of the To-tree (a kind of very sharp pepper).
Stran 1071 - Established at home, he is a most wonderful character. Under the inspiration of his demon, there is nothing which he cannot find out or do. For hundreds of miles the secrets of hearts are known and revealed. Hidden acts of witchcraft are brought to light. The potent spells and charms of the Deya control winds, rain, pestilence, health, wealth, life and death.