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id: 3284
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  The Little Windermere"--The New-Moon Levee--Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus Hunting--Measurement of a Fattened Queen--Political Polygamy


# bib

id: 3233
title: In the Heart of Africa
author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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summary:
  but the great event had occurred; the river had arrived "like a thief in Thus was the great river at work upon our arrival on its bank at the arms, head, legs, hands, appeared like a confused mass of dislocation; forward past the huge body, I fired the left-hand barrel at an elephant miles distant, to engage men, and to procure a slave in place of old Mahomet returned, accompanied by a large party of Hamran Arabs, these Hamran Arabs; the horse and man appeared to be one animal, and Some of our men, who had followed the runaway horses, shortly returned camel, men and others were engaged in cutting up the dead elephants, the On the following morning I sent ten of my men with a party of Ibrahim''s a few men to the bank of the river where we had landed the day before,


id: 3284
title: The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
author: Speke, John Hanning
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  Having gone to work again, I found that Sheikh Said had brought ten men, slave for each, and told Sheikh said to look out for some men at once, As nearly all the men had now returned, Grant and I spent New Year''s Day men, this time really provoked, said they would fight it out;--a king To do royal honours to the king of this charming land, I ordered my men out of the lake, and said, if I liked to ask the king''s leave to visit even Bombay, should come near me; for the king had caused my men to your dinner." My men n''yanzigged--the king walked away, giving orders Bombay did not return within four days, Kamrasi would send other men men, who came with Bombay, said they would escort us to their country, king''s orders for escorting us to Gani; but now they sent the men, the


id: 8417
title: What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
author: Speke, John Hanning
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  country--a large tract of land lying due south of Aden, and separated winds two days, during which time I went on shore and paid my respects me to return; they said the sultan was on his way, and would arrive in the interior journey to the great lake, Captain Burton bethought arrival, came down the hill of which this island is formed, in great succeeding sunny day, and, making good our time, reached the old tree On coming up the lake, we travelled the first half up the east coast, the time in taking notes from the travelled Arabs of all the countries fortunate that the sultan was a good man, and was present at the time the place a day or two on my return from the Lake, as they expressed Mansur has all this time been living, like the slaves of the country,


id: 32995
author: Jackson, Louis
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  about half an inch of mud off our faces with Nile river water, went to Nile river water of good taste but muddy and we generally left it following morning were ordered to take the light boats up the cataract We walked back the three miles took another boat and tried the channel officers taking a boat each of different numbers, reached Sarras about 5 the river with the lesser current, the boats being such good travellers mile wide, and full of large rocks between which the water came down Dal cataract is said to be five miles long. the river, there being no place for the men to stand and pull, the water well as the cataracts, the sailing qualities of the boats were all Placing a captain in each boat we started, but were charge with my Iroquois in passing boats up the Dal cataract, until the

title:
  Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile.


