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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...even the unimaginative Africans, as they sit in the central spaces of their villages, or, stretched under the f0resttrees_, gaze upon the glories around. "The rainy monsoon is here ushered in, accompanied and terminated b storms of thunder and lightning, and occasional hail-falls. he blinding flashes ...
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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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...even the unimaginative Africans, as they sit in the central spaces of their villages, or, stretched under the f0resttrees_, gaze upon the glories around. "The rainy monsoon is here ushered in, accompanied and terminated b storms of thunder and lightning, and occasional hail-falls. he blinding flashes of white, yellow, or rose-color play over the firmament uninterru tedl y for hours, during which no darkness is visible. In the lig iter storms thirty and thirtytive flashes may be counted in a minute: so vivid is the glare that it discloses the finest shades of color, and appears followed b a thick and palpable gloom, such as would hang before a b ind man's eyes, while a deafening roar, simultaneously following the flash, seems to travel, as it were, to and fro overhead. Several claps sometimes sound almost at the same moment, and as if coming from different directions. The same storm will, after the most violent of its discharges, pass over, and be immediately followed by a second, showing the superabundance of electricity in the atmosphere. " Travellers from Unyamwezi homeward returned often represent that country to be the healthiest in Eastern and Central Africa: they quote. as a proof, the keenness of their appetites, and the quantity of food which they consume. The older residents, however, modify their opinions: they declare that digestion does not wait upon appetite; and that, as in Egypt, Mazanderan, Malabar, and other hot-dam countries. no man long retains rude health. The sequels of t ieir maladies are always severe; few care to use remedies, deeming them inefiicacious against morbifie influences to them unknown; convalescence is protracted, painful, and uncertain, and at length they are compelled to lead the...
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