Blackwood's Magazine, Bind 95W. Blackwood, 1864 |
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Side 3
... king Mtésa's palace , and just forty miles east of it . " We were well rewarded ; for the ' Stones , ' as the Waganda call the falls , was by far the most interesting sight I had seen in Africa . Everybody ran to see them at once ...
... king Mtésa's palace , and just forty miles east of it . " We were well rewarded ; for the ' Stones , ' as the Waganda call the falls , was by far the most interesting sight I had seen in Africa . Everybody ran to see them at once ...
Side 6
... king of Uganda has on the lake , we are introduced to the domestic circle of this Nep- tune's high - priest - a sort of watery archbishop , supreme , apparently , within his own dominions ; and surely never before was ecclesias- tical ...
... king of Uganda has on the lake , we are introduced to the domestic circle of this Nep- tune's high - priest - a sort of watery archbishop , supreme , apparently , within his own dominions ; and surely never before was ecclesias- tical ...
Side 7
... kings , and to be decimated by famines , caused by their own care- lessness in neglecting to make any sort of ... king Sunna on his ascension to the throne , was the pro- prietor of this place , but unfortunately he was from home ...
... kings , and to be decimated by famines , caused by their own care- lessness in neglecting to make any sort of ... king Sunna on his ascension to the throne , was the pro- prietor of this place , but unfortunately he was from home ...
Side 8
... king's guest travels in it . Any one found selling anything to either yourself or your men would be punished . ' Accord- ingly , I stopped the daily issue of beads ; but no sooner had I done so , than all my men declared they could not ...
... king's guest travels in it . Any one found selling anything to either yourself or your men would be punished . ' Accord- ingly , I stopped the daily issue of beads ; but no sooner had I done so , than all my men declared they could not ...
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... king's . " To - day the king sent his pages to announce his intention of holding a levee in my honour . I prepared for my first presentation at court , attired in my best , though in it I cut a poor figure in comparison with the display ...
... king's . " To - day the king sent his pages to announce his intention of holding a levee in my honour . I prepared for my first presentation at court , attired in my best , though in it I cut a poor figure in comparison with the display ...
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Side 1 - Wasoga and Waganda fishermen coming out in boats and taking post on all the rocks with rod and hook, hippopotami and crocodiles lying sleepily on the water, the ferry at work above the falls, and cattle driven down to drink at the margin of the lake, — made, in all, with the pretty nature of the country — small hills, grassy-topped, with trees in the folds, and gardens on the lower slopes — as interesting a picture as one could wish to see.
Side 16 - I had given him with his own hands, and giving it full-cock to a page, told him to go out and shoot a man in the outer court ; which was no sooner accomplished than the little urchin returned to announce his success, with a look of glee such as one would see in the face of a boy who had robbed a bird's nest, caught a trout, or done any other boyish trick. The king said to him, 'And did you do it well?
Side 2 - But I felt I ought to be content with what I had been spared to accomplish; for I had seen full half of the lake, and had information given me of the other half, by means of which I knew all about the lake, as far, at least, as the chief objects of geographical importance were concerned.
Side 8 - There courtiers of high dignity stepped forward to greet me, dressed in the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats, were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms; and little pages, with...
Side 216 - Hemmings volunteered to walk with her to the corner ; and it is not necessary to say that she immediately plunged into the topic which at that moment engaged all minds in Carlingford. " If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I should not have believed it,
Side 414 - ... without actual malice, and without gross negligence; and that before the commencement of the action, or at the earliest opportunity afterwards...
Side 309 - Saturday night it had somewhat abated. The Bank had taken a firm and deliberate resolution to make common cause with the country, as far as their humble efforts would go.
Side 113 - This is a matter for serious reflection. Let us not delay taking a decision until sudden and irresistible events disturb our judgment and draw us in spite of ourselves in opposite directions. I now, therefore, propose to your Majesty to regulate the present and to secure the future by means of a Congress.