...We have superabundantforces for the purpose: there are wide plains in which you would bestarved—besides mountains and rivers which you would be unable to pass,without our help...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
..."I saw all that," replied Tarzan; "but the pebbles in the pouch werenot the pebbles of Tarzan—they were only such pebbles as fill thebottoms of the rivers, and the shelving banks beside them...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
... “But this one has a belly ache where Ismail smote him! Can a man with a belly ache stand guard? His moaning will betray both him and me!” objected “Lord of the Rivers...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...12, 1719–20;reprinted in Rivers, Early History of S...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
..." The governor ofSierra Leone reported the rivers Nunez and Pongas full ofrenegade European and American slave-traders; the tradewas said to be carried on "to an extent that almost staggersbelief...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...It is never found a mile from water; islets in marshes and rivers are its favorite haunts, and it is quite unknown except in the central humid basin of Africa...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Next came water-courses, now resembling small rivers, twenty yards broad and four feet deep...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Similar extensive flats give birth to the Loeti and Kasai, and, as we shall see further on, all the rivers of an extensive region owe their origin to oozing bogs, and not to fountains...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The former, as is the case with all branches of rivers in this country, is called nyuana Kalueje (child of the Kalueje)...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...On these rather dreary intervals between the rivers it was impossible not to be painfully struck with the absence of all animal life...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...We were gladdened by the voice of birds only near the rivers, and there they are neither numerous nor varied...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...In going to the town of Mai the traders crossed only two large rivers, the Loajima and Chihombo...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The two rivers rise in the same region; but there is a difference in the period of flood, possibly from their being on opposite sides of the equator...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Some of the older men objected to abandoning the line of defense afforded by the rivers Chobe and Zambesi against their southern enemies the Matebele...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
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