 | 1831 - 608 pages
...Portuguese-looking countenance. I feel confident, that if but onethird of the vessels got any supply who profess being in the ivory trade, not a tooth would...the most fertile appearance, terminated by high red cliffs seen in the distance. Just before making Loango Bay, we passed several small villages, and the... | |
 | 1831 - 942 pages
...Portuguese-looking countenance. I feel confident, that if but onethird of the vessels got any supply who profess being in the ivory trade, not a tooth would...the most fertile appearance, terminated by high red cliffs seen in the distance. Just before making Loango Bay, we passed several small villages, and the... | |
 | John Purdy - 1844 - 534 pages
...shot. Sheep are also scarce, but goats are plentiful, as well as ducks and fowls ; but very dear. " The natives were very desirous of procuring tobacco...woods with the most shrill and discordant noises." From Kahenda Hook, SW } S. [S. by W. J W."] 4 leagues, is the Red Point: between the two are seen the... | |
 | John Purdy - 1855 - 634 pages
...well as ducks and fowls, but very dear. " The natives were very desirous of procuring tobacco ; hut, as our crew were not overstocked, we did not barter...woods with the most shrill and discordant noises." M. de Kerballet says, " Kabenda is not a place for provisioning. But fowls, goats, and some kinds of... | |
 | Alexander G. Findlay - 1867 - 738 pages
...as well as ducks and fowls, but very dear. " The natives were very desirous of procuring tobacco j but, as our crew were not overstocked, we did not...woods with" the most shrill and discordant noises." M. de Kerhallet says, "Kabenda is not a place for provisioning. But fowls, goats, and some kinds of... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1883 - 938 pages
...also scarce, but goats are plentiful, as well as ducks and fowls, but very dear. " The natives are very desirous of procuring tobacco; but, as our crew...woods with the most shrill and discordant noises." M. de Kerhallet says, " Kabenda is not a place for provisioning ; but fowls, goats, and some kinds... | |
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Brazils," as one fellow had the impudence to tell me, without stirring a muscle of his cut-throat, Portuguese-looking countenance. I feel confident, that if but onethird of the vessels got any supply who profess being in the ivory trade, not a tooth would... 