Bompiani, Sofia, b. 1835, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · [London] : Religious Tract Society · leaf 110
104 ITALIAN EXPLORERS IN AFRICA. These savages will not bury a white man or touch his bones, for fear of contamination, and thus it was possible several years afterwards to gather the piteous relics together that had been exposed to the wild beasts, whitened in the sun, and almost covered with… … CARLO COCASTELLI DI MONTIGLIO. Porro, President of the African Commercial Society of Milan ; Count Cocastelli of Mantua, a Secretary of the Geographical Society of Rome ; Professor Licati of Naples, and others, were massacred while on their way from the sea-port of Zeila across Afar towards the…
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