After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called 'smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large tracts of grass are burned in Africa. Five columns now... Explorations in Africa - Seite 114von Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, David Livingstone - 1872 - 412 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1858 - 1194 Seiten
...falls he now resolved to visit, and his description of them shall be given in his own words : — " After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called • smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when... | |
| 1858 - 498 Seiten
...on the Zambesi are discovered, or as the natives call them, Mosioatunya (smoke does sound there). " After twenty minutes sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called ' smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large... | |
| 1844 - 742 Seiten
...we will only quote from his last journey a sketch of the " Smoke- Sounding " Falls of the Zambesi. " After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called ' smoke,' rising at a distance of five nr six miles, exactly as when large... | |
| 1858 - 708 Seiten
...accompany me, but one canoe only having come instead of the two he had ordered, he resigned it to me. After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called ' smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large... | |
| English cyclopaedia - 1869 - 710 Seiten
...for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called " smoke," rising at a distance ot five or six miles, exactly as when large tracts of grass are burned in Africa. Five columns of vapour arose, and bending in the direction of the wind, they seemed placed against a low ridge covered... | |
| 1857 - 830 Seiten
...terms it. These falls arc in the Leearabye, or Zambesi, both words simply meaning, ' The River :' — ' After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called " smoke," rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 Seiten
...Falls of the Zambezi, (Afosi oa tuuya, or Victoria Falls,) the position of which was pointed out by "columns of vapor, appropriately called smoke, rising...when large tracts of grass are burned in Africa." The river here is about 1000 yards broad, and this large body of water tiills down into a large rent... | |
| 1858 - 770 Seiten
...proofe that he was the first white man who ever saw these falls. This is Lis account of them : — " After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai, we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately called "gmoke," rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large... | |
| 1858 - 798 Seiten
...Kalai, we came in eight, for the first time, of the column» of vapour, appropriately called "smoke,'1 rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large tracts uf grase are burned in Africa. Fire column* now arose, and VOL. LI.— KO. CCOI. bending in the direction... | |
| 1858 - 704 Seiten
...a graphic idea of the smoke-sounding columns of the Zambesi. After twenty minutes' sail off Knit!, we came in sight for the first time, of the columns of vapour, appropriately call«! " smoke," rising ¡it n distance of five or si* miles, exactly as when... | |
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