The New Standard History of the World: A General History of All the Nations of the Globe ...L. Brent Vaughan M.A. Donohue & Company, 1908 - World history |
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... southern limits . But neither Greeks nor Romans ever extended their knowledge much beyond the northern verge of the Sahara , and although the Nile valley was the earliest seat of human culture , with stupendous monuments dating back ...
... southern limits . But neither Greeks nor Romans ever extended their knowledge much beyond the northern verge of the Sahara , and although the Nile valley was the earliest seat of human culture , with stupendous monuments dating back ...
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... southern part of the Great Victoria Nyanza , which he supposed to be the head reservoir of the Nile . A second expedition , undertaken by Speke and Grant in the end of 1860 , penetrated as far north as Gondokoro on the White Nile , and ...
... southern part of the Great Victoria Nyanza , which he supposed to be the head reservoir of the Nile . A second expedition , undertaken by Speke and Grant in the end of 1860 , penetrated as far north as Gondokoro on the White Nile , and ...
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... southern head stream of the Nile , circumnavigated Victoria Nyanza , and dis- covered the Mwutan Nzigé , which he took for Baker's Albert Nyanza , but which is now known to be a distinct basin draining possibly to Tanganyika ( 1875–76 ) ...
... southern head stream of the Nile , circumnavigated Victoria Nyanza , and dis- covered the Mwutan Nzigé , which he took for Baker's Albert Nyanza , but which is now known to be a distinct basin draining possibly to Tanganyika ( 1875–76 ) ...
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... southern sides of Lake Tchad , being conterminous on the southeast with Bagirmi , from which it is separated by the Shari River , and stretches thence westward to the empire of Inhabit- Sokoto . The inhabitants who call themselves Ka ...
... southern sides of Lake Tchad , being conterminous on the southeast with Bagirmi , from which it is separated by the Shari River , and stretches thence westward to the empire of Inhabit- Sokoto . The inhabitants who call themselves Ka ...
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... southern verge of the Sahara southward nearly to the divide between the Tchad and Congo basins . The Arabs , here collectively called Aramka , have been settled within the confines of this country for over five hundred years . Their ...
... southern verge of the Sahara southward nearly to the divide between the Tchad and Congo basins . The Arabs , here collectively called Aramka , have been settled within the confines of this country for over five hundred years . Their ...
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