The Geographical Journal, Band 26Royal Geographical Society., 1905 Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately. |
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Seite 465 - WHEN you depart from this City of Cobinan, you find yourself again in a Desert of surpassing aridity, which lasts for some eight days ; here are neither fruits nor trees to be seen, and what water there is is bitter and bad, so that you have to carry both food and water. The cattle must needs drink the bad water, will they nill they, because of their great thirst. At the end of those eight days you arrive at a Province which is called TONOCAIN.
Seite iv - ... admission fee, and £2 as his first annual subscription, or he may compound, " either at his entrance by one payment of £35, or at any subsequent period on the " following basis : — Fellows of 20 years
Seite 359 - A Complete Collection of the TREATIES and CONVENTIONS, and RECIPROCAL REGULATIONS, at present subsisting between GREAT BRITAIN and FOREIGN POWERS, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Repression and Abolition of the Slave Trade, and to the Privileges and Interests of the Subjects of the High Contracting Parties ; compiled from Authentic Documents by LEWIS HERTSLET, Esq.
Seite 598 - ... watching the turbid flood swirling past. The chur opposite, which the river left dry when its waters fell at the close of the last rainy season, and which, till lately, was covered by a rich green crop of indigo, is now more than half cut away, and buried beneath the water.
Seite 132 - Atlantic, which is one reason, amongst many others, why Great Britain desires to see the independence of the Liberian republic preserved and maintained. The country of Liberia, as a whole, is one dense forest. It is practically the culmination of the West African forest, the regions to the north, east, and west having been more extensively cleared by man in past times, or partaking more of the park-land, grass-grown character owing to their less copious rainfall.
Seite 131 - Coast, projects furthest southwards, to scarcely more than 4° from the equator. The northern political boundary of Liberia meets the coast at the mouth of the river Muno in N. lat. 7".
Seite 145 - Iving at anchor, it is not at all nice for small boats or steam launches, and generally during the rainy season of the year transference from the big steamer to the shore-going boat has to be effected by means of a crane and a cradle. Still more to be dreaded on some points on the coast is the landing or the going off on account of the surf. Perhaps the best approach to a sheltered harbor which exists is at the capital, Monrovia. Here there is a bar to a small river or creek which communicates with...
Seite 104 - ... would be like the play of Hamlet with the . Prince of Denmark left out.
Seite 353 - December, 1907, being an account of mining operations for gold, coal, etc., in the Province of British Columbia.
Seite 134 - Congo forest. Much as the botanist may glory in the splendid vegetation, I really think that in the long run one wearies more quickly and easily of forest than of desert. Forest, in fact, is the distinguishing feature of Liberia as a country ; it is the climax of the forest region of West [Africa. In and from the forest will be derived the great future wealth of this country.