The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 54National Geographic Society, 1928 - Geography |
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Page 116
... took me out to Sitting Bull's grave the next morning . A plain headstone records that the famous chief was killed December 15 , 1890 , but it does not add that it was by Indian police sent to arrest him for inciting the Ghost dancers of ...
... took me out to Sitting Bull's grave the next morning . A plain headstone records that the famous chief was killed December 15 , 1890 , but it does not add that it was by Indian police sent to arrest him for inciting the Ghost dancers of ...
Page 127
... took the photograph desired , while some scowling individual turned his back . The caravan men were adepts at this game , and often posed and carried on a conversation with the photographic victim while the picture was made backward ...
... took the photograph desired , while some scowling individual turned his back . The caravan men were adepts at this game , and often posed and carried on a conversation with the photographic victim while the picture was made backward ...
Page 136
... took wing and strung themselves out against the sky ; and along a muddy slough were a few of the grotesque African marabou storks , or adjutants . Smaller birds were scarcely less con- spicuous , especially the large jaylike and ...
... took wing and strung themselves out against the sky ; and along a muddy slough were a few of the grotesque African marabou storks , or adjutants . Smaller birds were scarcely less con- spicuous , especially the large jaylike and ...
Page 165
... took us halfway down the south side ; the second day we reached the river , forded it , and climbed part way out ; and the third we finished the grueling climb to the north rim . Here the aneroid again read 8,100 feet , practically the ...
... took us halfway down the south side ; the second day we reached the river , forded it , and climbed part way out ; and the third we finished the grueling climb to the north rim . Here the aneroid again read 8,100 feet , practically the ...
Page 170
... took the precaution to have the water boiled , here as elsewhere . MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION BY RAS HAILU On the north bank of the Blue Nile we entered the important province of Gojjam , rich realm of the famous chieftain Ras Hailu , second ...
... took the precaution to have the water boiled , here as elsewhere . MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION BY RAS HAILU On the north bank of the Blue Nile we entered the important province of Gojjam , rich realm of the famous chieftain Ras Hailu , second ...
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