 | 918 Seiten
...of our party counted one hundred and seven of these skeletons." Shortly afterwards he adds : — " During the last two days we had passed on an average...each day; but the numbers that lay about the wells at El Hammar were countless, (p. 83.) " The next cause of mortality arises from the detention of the slaves... | |
 | Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney - 1826 - 562 Seiten
...sand hills, mixed with red stone, to the west, over a plain of fine gravel, and halted .it the matun, called El-Hammar, close under a bluff head, which...countless : those of two women, whose perfect and regular tteth bespoke them young, were particularly shocking ; their arms still remained clasped round each... | |
 | 1827 - 670 Seiten
...Arriving a few days after at the Wells of El-Hammar, further on in the Desert, Major lienham says — During the last two days, we had passed, on an average, from 60 to 80 or 90 skeletons each day : but the numbers that lay about the wells at El-Hammar were countless.... | |
 | 1827 - 478 Seiten
...Arriving a few days after at the Wells of El-Hamtnar, further on in the desert, Major Denhanx says — " During the last two days, we had passed, on an average, from 60 to 80 or 90 skeletons each day : but the numbers that lay about the wells of El-Hammar were countless.... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1836 - 824 Seiten
...been seen on the look out. During the last two days, they had passed, on an average, from sixty to ninety skeletons each day, but the numbers that lay about the wells at El Hammar were countless ; those of two young women, whose perfect and regular teeth bespoke them young,... | |
 | 1837 - 72 Seiten
...day's journey of 26 miles, in the course of which; one of our party counted 107 of the skeletons. " During the last two days we had passed on an average...day ; but the numbers that lay about the wells at £1 Hammar, were countless. "If the hundreds, nay, the 'thousands of skeletons, that whiten in the... | |
 | 1837 - 340 Seiten
...twenty-six miles, in the course of which, one of our party counted one hundred and seven of the skeletons. " During the last two days we had passed on an average...day ; but the numbers that lay about the wells at El (laminar, were countless. " If the hundreds, nay, the thousands of skeletons, that whiten in the... | |
 | sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.) - 1838 - 244 Seiten
...course of which one of our party counted 107 of these skeletons." Shortly afterwards, he adds:— " During the last two days we had passed on an average...each day; but the numbers that lay about the wells at El Hammar were countless." Richard Lander, in his account of Captain Clapperton's last journey in 1826,... | |
 | bart Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1838 - 244 Seiten
...course of which one of our party counted 107 of these skeletons." Shortly afterwards, he adds : — " During the last two days we had passed on an average...day ; but the numbers that lay about the wells at El Hammar were countless." Richard Lander, in his account of Captain Clapperton's last journey in 1826,... | |
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During the last two days, we had passed on an average from sixty to eighty or ninety skeletons each day ; but the numbers that lay about the wells at El-Hammar were countless : those of two women, whose perfect and regular teeth bespoke them young, were... 
