 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 644 pages
...attempted to substitute the manufacture of Europe. The kingdom of Bambouk, situated near the head of the river, and so enclosed between its main stream and...begins to appear in small grains or spangles, and at twenty feet in small lumps of from two to ten grains. The pieces become always larger as the work descends... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 640 pages
...attempted to substitute the manufacture of Europe. The kingdom of Bambouk, situated near the head of the river, and so enclosed between its main stream and...begins to appear in small grains or spangles, and at twenty feet in small lumps of from two to ten grains. The pieces become always larger as the work descends... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Africa - 1837 - 388 pages
...of wrangling and higgling immediately ensues. The kingdom of Bambouk, situate near the head of the river, and so enclosed between its main stream and...begins to appear in small grains or spangles, and at twenty feet in small lumps of from two to ten grains. The pieces become always larger as the work descends... | |
 | bart Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Slave trade - 1838 - 244 pages
...easily accessible, in any quantity. Martin says, (vol. iv., p. 540,) the main depositories where this metal is traced, as it were, to its source, are two mountains, Na Takon and Semayla. In the former gold is very abundant, and is found united with earth, iron, or... | |
 | sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.) - 1838 - 244 pages
...easily accessible, in any quantity. Martin says, (vol. iv., p. 540,) the main depositories where this metal is traced, as it were, to its source, are two mountains, Na Takon and Semayla. In the former gold is very abundant, and is found united with earth, iron, or... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1839 - 646 pages
...attempted to substitute the manufacture of Europe. The kingdom of Bambouk, situated near the head of the river, and so enclosed between its main stream and...begins to appear in small grains or spangles, and at twenty feet in small lumps of from two to ten grains. The pieces become always larger as the work descends... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Africa - 1839 - 274 pages
...easily attainable in any quantity. Martin says, (vol. iv., p. 540,) the main depositories where this metal is traced, as it were, to its source, are two mountains, Na Takon and Semayla. In the former, gold is very abundant, and is found united with earth, iron, or... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - History - 1840 - 624 pages
...easily attainable in any quantity. Martin says, (vol. iv., p. 540,) the main depositories where this metal is traced, as it were, to its source, are two mountains, Na Takon and Semayla. In the former, gold is very abundant, and is found united with earth, iron, or... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1855 - 652 pages
...country of mountains, whence flow numerous streams, almost all of which roll over golden sands. Bat the main depositaries, where the metal is traced as...begins to appear in small grains or spangles, and at twenty feet in small lumps of from two to ten grains. The pieces become always larger as the work descends... | |
 | Robert Austin Parrish - France - 1869 - 178 pages
...whence flow numerous streams, almost all of which roil over golden sands. But the main depositories, where the metal is traced, as it were, to its source,...mass of gold, united with earth, iron, or emery The pieces become large as the works descend. In the mountain of Semayla the gold is imbedded in hard sandstone,... | |
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Bambouk, situated near the head of the river, and so enclosed between its main stream and the great branches of the Kokoro and the Faleme, as to form almost a complete island, is the next object of commercial importance to the French on the Senegal. It... 