Africa and its exploration : as told by its explorers Mungo Park, Clapperton, the Landers, Livingstone, Barth, Barkie, Denham, Burton, Speke, Caillie, Schweinfurth, Mohr, Stanley, Holub, Serpa, Pinto, Farini, Thomson, Montagu Kerr ; with 600 illustrations and maps
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : S. Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 217
AFRICAN EXPL ORERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTUR Y. 157 mouthpiece with gold, and the jawbones of human victims. The war-caps of eagles’ feathers nodded in the rear, and large fans, of the wing-feathers of the ostrich, played around the dignitaries ; immediately behind their chairs (which were of a… … 1. Ashantee pipe. 2. Hat. 3. Snuft’ mill. 4. War drum. 5. Sword. their handsomest youths, with corslets of leopard-skin, covered with gold cockle-shells, and stuck full of small knives, sheathed in gold and silver, and the handles of blue agate ; cartouch-boxes of elephant’s hide hung below,…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Description and travel
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