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Download or read book Adventures and Observations On the West Coast of Africa and Its Islands written by Charles W Thomas and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles W. Thomas was a British explorer and writer who traveled extensively along the West Coast of Africa in the mid-19th century. This book is a fascinating account of his adventures and observations in the region, and provides unique insights into the cultures, customs, and histories of the people he encountered. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and Its Islands written by Chas W. Thomas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and Its Islands: Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verd Islands; Their Climates, Inhabitants, and Productions; Accounts of Places, Peoples, Customs, Trade, Etc;, Etc;, Etc The news brought to mind my boyhood's dreams of Morocco; and they were to be realized in part, for I should, at least, look upon her shores, and shake hands with her sun-burnt children but how far my romantic ideas Of the half-civilized character had been modified, judge ye, who have had two years of contact with the ugliness of man's savage condition on the shores of Africa; and how far my ardour for adventure had been cooled, ye can imagine, who have Spent a year on that dreary station, away from country and friends, and wife and little ones. There is, however, a degree Of romance inseparable from the Moorish character; so we rejoiced in the pros peet of breaking in on the monotony of our cruise, by spending a day with the Barbarians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and Its Islands Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madeira Canary Biafra and Cape Ver written by Chas W. Thomas and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXX. CAPE VERD ISLANDS. The Cape Verd Islands--Origin--Droughts--Population--Climate--Mayo--Boavista--Sal--Fuego--San Vincent--Porto Grande--American Graveyard--San Antonio--Brava--St. Jago--Porto Praya--Untold Incidents--Homeward Bound--The U. S. Steamer Jamestown--Home Again--Adieu. The Cape Verd Islands, situate between 14 48' and 17 12' N. lat., and 22 43' and 25 23' W. long., have been long and favorably known to the seafaring and commercial men of Europe and America, as a half-way house, or caravanserai on the seas, between the ports of Europe and South America, and those of America and Africa. They are visited frequently also by the homeward-bound Indiamen of Great Britain, and by American whalers. In later years they have obtained some notoriety as being the rendezvous of the American African Squadron. The group (sometimes, but incorrectly, called the "Cape de "Verdes Islands") takes its name from Cape Verd on the opposite coast, 400 miles distant, and was discovered in the year 1450 by Antonio Noli, a Genoese in the service of the prince of Portugal. The inhabited islands are ten, namely: St. Jago, Sal, Boavista (generally called Bonavista), Mayo, Fuego, or Fogo, Brava, St. Nicholas, St. Vincent, St. Antonio, and Branco. Besides these there are several islets, barren and without inhabitants, remarkable only as the resort of fishermen and sea-birds, and for the grotesque beauty of their dark cliffs and foam-lashed shores, and the well-characterized types of their geological formations. These islands are all of volcanic origin; the fruit, no doubt, of the same subterraneous throes which gave the Madeiras and Canaries to the superaqueous world. There are, however, abundant evidences of distinct and well-marked periods of...
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