The African Repository, Volumes 60-62American colonization society., 1886 - African Americans |
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... lakes and broad rivers flowing from the centre to the coast . They spoke of the great mass of Central Africa as consisting of vast deserts , bare of vegetation , bare of animal life , and , above all , bare of men . There was so much of ...
... lakes and broad rivers flowing from the centre to the coast . They spoke of the great mass of Central Africa as consisting of vast deserts , bare of vegetation , bare of animal life , and , above all , bare of men . There was so much of ...
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... Lake Chad , and throughout Western Soudan , is not very different from what it was when Hannibal marshalled his legions against Rome , and drew many of his warriors , with their trained elephants , from the regions south of the Great ...
... Lake Chad , and throughout Western Soudan , is not very different from what it was when Hannibal marshalled his legions against Rome , and drew many of his warriors , with their trained elephants , from the regions south of the Great ...
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... Lake Nyassa and the East coast ; the Mission of the London Missionary Society , near Lake Tanganyika ; the Church Missionary Society's Mission , near the Victoria Nyanza ; and the Missions of the American Board of Com- missioners for ...
... Lake Nyassa and the East coast ; the Mission of the London Missionary Society , near Lake Tanganyika ; the Church Missionary Society's Mission , near the Victoria Nyanza ; and the Missions of the American Board of Com- missioners for ...
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... lake districts , and is making her strong arm felt in other portions of the Continent . France continues encroachments in Madagascar , and is forcing its way on the Senegal and toward the headwaters of the Niger . It has taken King Tofa ...
... lake districts , and is making her strong arm felt in other portions of the Continent . France continues encroachments in Madagascar , and is forcing its way on the Senegal and toward the headwaters of the Niger . It has taken King Tofa ...
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... lake Tsad . Two Portuguese naval officers , Lieut . Cardosa and Dr. Franco , have set out from Mozambique for Imbambane , and thence to Umzila's . Their object , in part , is the development of cer- tain mines near Manica . M. Girand ...
... lake Tsad . Two Portuguese naval officers , Lieut . Cardosa and Dr. Franco , have set out from Mozambique for Imbambane , and thence to Umzila's . Their object , in part , is the development of cer- tain mines near Manica . M. Girand ...
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Page 10 - And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more : and he went on his way rejoicing.
Page 10 - And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Page 55 - And he arose and went : and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning; and, sitting in his chariot, read Esaias the prophet.
Page 102 - Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 2 - And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms : because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Page 5 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 5 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 122 - German influences in that part of the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, or in the interior districts to the east of the following line : that is, on the coast, the right river bank of the Rio del Rey entering the sea between 8° 42
Page 87 - And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 49 - All the Powers exercising sovereign rights or influence in the aforesaid territories bind themselves to watch over the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the conditions of their moral and material well-being, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially the Slave Trade.