British West Africa: Its Rise and ProgressSwan Sonnenshein, 1900 - 512 sivua |
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Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Adamawa African Company Arabs army Ashanti attack Baghirmi Baikie bank Barth Bello Benin Benué Bida Borgu Bornu Brass Britain Calabar Cape Coast Castle capital Captain century chiefs Clapperton Colony commenced confluence Consul Denham despatched distance district Dutch east Elmina Emir endeavour England English established European eventually expedition exploration exports factories Fantis Fernando force Fulah Fulah Empire Gambia Gando Gold Coast Governor Hausa Ilorin important inhabitants interior Island journey Kano Katsena king kingdom Kuka Kumassi Lagos Laird Lake Chad land Lander Lokoja Lower Niger Macgregor Laird Masaba matter merchants Middle Niger miles missionaries Mohammedan natives neighbourhood neighbouring Niger Coast numerous Nupé officers Omoru Othman pagan palm oil Portuguese possessions principal Protectorate provinces reached river route Royal Niger Company Sheik Sierra Leone slaves Sokoto steamers Sultan territory Timbuctoo town trade traveller treaty tribes Tripoli Vide Chapter villages visited West Africa West Coast Yola Yoruba
Suositut otteet
Sivu 491 - In case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified twelve months before the expiration of the said ten years the intention of terminating it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the high contracting parties shall have denounced it. But if when the date fixed for its expiration arrives either ally is actually engaged in war the alliance shall ipso facto continue until peace is concluded.
Sivu 490 - Her Britannic Majesty's Government will grant on lease to the Government of the French Republic, for the objects, and on the conditions specified in the form of lease annexed to the present Protocol, two pieces of ground to be selected by the Government of the French Republic in conjunction with Her Britannic Majesty's Government, one of which will be situated in a suitable spot on the right bank of the Niger between Leaba and the junction of the River Moussa (Mochi) with the former river, and the...
Sivu 393 - There is no piety in turning your faces towards the East or the West, but he is pious who believeth in God, and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Scriptures and the Prophets ; who for the love of 'God disburseth his wealth to his kindred, and to the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and those who ask, and for ransoming...
Sivu 133 - My pursuers gained on me, for the prickly underwood not only obstructed my passage, but tore my flesh miserably ; and the delight with which I saw a mountain-stream gliding along at the bottom of a deep ravine, cannot be imagined. My strength had almost left me, and I seized the young branches issuing from the stump of a large tree which overhung the ravine, for the purpose...
Sivu 413 - Canada by land carriage and in bond, under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon between the Government of Her Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States. Citizens of the United States may for the like period carry in United States...
Sivu 140 - I suppose, had previously been assigned to him. The number of fighting men brought before the town could not, I think, be less than fifty or sixty thousand, horse and foot, of which the foot amounted to more than nine-tenths. For the depth of two hundred yards, all round the walls was a dense circle of men and horses. The horse kept out of bow-shot, while the foot went up as...
Sivu 413 - Chad, drawn in such a manner as to comprise in the sphere of action of the Niger Company all that fairly belongs to the Kingdom of Sokoto; the line to be determined by the Commissioners to be appointed.
Sivu 432 - ... a provisional line of demarcation is adopted between the German sphere in the Cameroons and the adjoining British sphere, which, starting from the head of the Rio del Rey creek, goes direct to the point, about 9° 8' of east longitude, marked "Rapids" in the British Admiralty Chart.
Sivu 494 - In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention and have affixed thereto their seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the irday of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
Sivu 250 - Yaa-rooba, son of Kahtan, out of Arabia, to the western coast between Egypt and Abyssinia. From that spot they advanced into the interior of Africa, till they reached Yarba, where they fixed their residence.