Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People: An Account of Expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, West of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile). |
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Abou Saoûd accompanied Adjutant-Major Arab arrived attack Ba Beker Baba Tuka Bahr-el-Abiad banana banana groves bank Bari Berber boats Cairo camp Central Africa Chillouk Cloth command desert Dongolowee dourah dragoman elephant encamped Equatorial Provinces escort expedition fatigue Fatiko fearful feet fever fire Foueira Gebel Gondokoro Government Governor Highness the Khedive hippopotami honour horse Ibrahim ivory jungle Kahotah Karuma Falls Keba Rega Kellerman and Adam Khartoum Khedive king Lado Lake Albert Lake Victoria land Latroche Linant M'Tsé Makraka Niam-Niam merissa morning Mrooli Mtongoli natives negro Niam night Nile o'clock officers Pacha palace passed porters rain rendered Rionga river road route Saïd and Abd-el Saïd and Abd-el-Rahman Saubat savage Selim sent Sheik Shendy shore Sir Samuel Baker soldiers Soudanieh southward Speke steamer stream Suleiman Ticki-Ticki tion told tree tribes troops Ugunda Unyoro Urondogani Wat-el-Mek whilst Yanbari Zeriba
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Page 8 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude.
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