Brown, Robert, 1842-1895, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Cassell · leaf 312
he waters are brackish skins, prognathous jaws and thick lips, with and almost undrinkable. It swarms with small heads and shrunk-up, withered bodies.” crocodiles, hippopotami, and fishes, , while Their houses are mere human pig-sties ; and, buffalo with singularly fine horns, ele- like the Warua… … GROTESQUE BAOBAB. (From a Photograph by Sir John Kirk.) Lake Nyassa was seen in the distance, four francolins, and ring-doves haunt its unlovely shores. Hunger, thirst, a scorching wind, a thousand feet below the plateau on which the expedition was encamped. blazing sun, venomous flies, and the…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Colonization
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