 | John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 306 sivua
...inaccurately the results of much of the explorations down to hisday when he said: " So geographers in Afrlc maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." since we obtained any certain knowledge of those great lakes which from an early period were rumored... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1897 - 600 sivua
...^^ft ,•„ Not until that date did Swift's satire2 lose its point. its history. 'So geographers on Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps And...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.' 1 The Waganda are the people of Uganda. Wa is the prefix used in Swahili (the tongue of the mongrel... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 318 sivua
...unapproachable bogs." This remark moved Dean Swift, the author of " Gulliver's Travels," to say : So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want oi towns. CHAPTER VII. THE SEA OF SAND AND ITS MARVELS — THE FABLED SALAMANDER AND ITS TRUE STORY—... | |
 | Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1878 - 1901 - 212 sivua
...Class Report, I should have to construct it as they constructed maps of Africa in Swift's time : " ' So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.' " I have no statistics to give. I have the same address, the same title, the same profession, the same... | |
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - 1988 - 310 sivua
...'Decorative maps', The Studio, 128 (1944), pp. 161-9. 97 So Geographers in /4/r/c-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. Jonathan Swift, On poetry: a rhapsody 'Savage-Pictures', 'Elephants', and a 'want of Towns' (towns... | |
 | David Hatcher Childress - 1989 - 428 sivua
...mystery. ZAMBIA AND MALAWI: THE BATMEN OF AFRICA So Geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage pictures nil their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs place elephants for want of towns. —Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) I arrived at Kpiri Mposhi, the end of the Chinese-built Tazara railway,... | |
 | George Cumberland - 1991 - 424 sivua
...Country ... in the Years 1809 and 1 8 io (1814). 14 So Geographers in Afric-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. (Swift, "On Poetry: A Rhapsody," 11. 177—80) 15 WG Browne, Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria (1799);... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1993 - 460 sivua
...constructed by those writers on Africa as to justify the witty lines of Swift : — Geographers in Afrio's maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns. But what physical glories, what mountains and lakes, and rivers, and what a wealth of population have... | |
 | Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer - 1995 - 206 sivua
...Eigenlijk had hij daar wel steden willen hebben.' (So geographers in Afric-maps With savage-pictures fill Their gaps. And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns.) Lear wil geen witte lege vlek als wereld. Hij wenst zieh een andere wereld zonder grenzen, bevolkt... | |
 | Victoria Dickenson - 1998 - 344 sivua
...seventeenth-century satiric poem, suggested that So Geographers in Afric-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns.35 The noted cartographic historian Wilma George is the authority for the depiction of animals... | |
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So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 
