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 130
TION. and his family from quake and fever, curled from the door ; and where the bed was a straw pallet, with a log of wood for a pillow. But the Congoese is better lodged than we were before the days of Queen Elizabeth ; what are luxuries in the north, broad beds and deep arm- chairs, would here be… … CONGO, LOOKING SOUTH. a cool earth-bench running round the room, which then wanted only a glass window. But no domestic splen- dour was required ; life in the open air is the life for the tropics : even in England a greater proportion of it would do away with much neuralgia and similar com-…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Description and travel
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