item: #1 of 4 id: 3233 author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir title: In the Heart of Africa date: None words: 90420 flesch: 71 summary: Mahomet, who was a great man, suffered from the same complaint to which great men are (in those countries) particularly subject. No. 3, a man deformed from his birth, who wishes to become straight as other men. keywords: abou; aggageers; animals; arabs; arrival; camels; camp; close; country; course; day; days; dead; distance; elephant; feet; fire; forward; gondokoro; good; ground; half; hand; having; head; horse; ibrahim; jungle; kamrasi; khartoum; lake; lay; left; length; like; little; mahomet; man; march; men; miles; moment; morning; natives; night; nile; party; people; place; return; river; shot; speke; spot; time; water; white; wife; yards cache: 3233.txt plain text: 3233.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 3284 author: Speke, John Hanning title: The Discovery of the Source of the Nile date: None words: 211635 flesch: 64 summary: I explained our difficulties as those of great men in misfortune; and, after listening to our tale, he said he would tell Suwarora of the way we had been plundered, and impress upon him to deal lightly with us. It was not the custom of my country for great men to consort with servants, and until I saw him, and made friends, I should not be happy. keywords: arabs; arrival; bana; baraka; beads; boats; bombay; camp; chief; children; cloth; coast; coming; country; course; court; cows; day; days; food; gani; going; good; grant; grass; ground; guns; half; hands; head; high; hills; home; hut; ivory; journey; kamrasi; karague; king; lake; land; leave; left; like; long; look; man; manner; march; maula; men; morning; mtesa; musa; n'yanza; night; nile; number; officers; orders; pages; palace; party; pay; people; petherick; pombe; porters; present; property; queen; return; river; road; rumanika; saw; saying; set; shot; slaves; state; suwarora; taking; things; thought; time; uganda; unyoro; use; village; visit; waganda; wakungu; water; way; white; women; zanzibar cache: 3284.txt plain text: 3284.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 32995 author: Jackson, Louis title: Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile. date: None words: 9737 flesch: 77 summary: They build houses with it as well as boats and it is this mud which manures and fertilizes the whole land of Egypt. A track runs from the depot straight down to the river and there were a number of flat cars loaded with boats, of which I took a nearer look, I also saw oars and poles. keywords: boats; cataract; channel; day; feet; men; miles; mud; nile; place; river; saw; time; water cache: 32995.txt plain text: 32995.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 8417 author: Speke, John Hanning title: What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile date: None words: 101039 flesch: 60 summary: When that was settled, many other men, and amongst them the sultan's second brother Hassan, coveting my clothes, wished to be engaged. It is true that the slaves whom the Arab merchants, or other men, have in their possession, never forsake their master, as if they disliked their state in bondage; but then, when we consider their position, what pleasure or advantage would they derive by doing so? keywords: abban; aden; africa; animals; arabs; beads; berbera; bombay; burton; camels; camp; captain; caravan; cattle; chief; cloth; coast; consequence; country; day; days; distance; east; end; expedition; good; government; great; ground; half; having; head; high; hills; journey; lake; land; leave; left; life; line; long; man; march; men; miles; morning; n'yanza; night; nile; north; party; people; place; present; return; river; said; sea; shore; small; somali; south; sultan; sumunter; thought; time; travelling; village; water; way; west; zanzibar cache: 8417.txt plain text: 8417.txt