The Albert N'yanza : great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources (1866)
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893, author · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 116
12 WHITH ANT TOWERS. [CHAP. I, the dry season, the white ants carry their hills to so oreat a height (about ten feet), that they can live securely in the upper stories during the floods. The whole day we are beset by crowds of starving people, … bringing small gourd-shells to receive the expected corn. The people of this tribe are mere apes, trusting entirely to the productions of nature for their subsist- ence ; they will spend hours in digging’ out field-mice
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893 -- Travel -- Nile River Valley · Nile River Valley -- Discovery and exploration · Sudan -- Description and travel · Albert, Lake (Congo and Uganda) -- Description and travel
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