"East Africa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... national convention in 1910, which drew up the constitution for the present Union of South Africa. He was minister of the defense of the South African Government and commanded the troops in the campaign against the Germans in East Africa in 1916-17. Promoted to be an honorary lieutenant-general, he was the South African representative in the imperial war cabinet in 1917-18. This led to his prominence in the peace conference and to his close contact ...
— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan
... of great monkeys called sokos that live in Central East Africa which are said to bite off men's toes and fingers. I have heard too that they are ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia conventional short form: Ethiopia local long form: Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik local short form: Ityop'iya former: Abyssinia, Italian East Africa ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... form of cowry-belts worn in (a) East Africa and (b) Oceania respectively. (c) Ancient Indian girdle (from the figure of Sirima Devata on the Bharat Tope), consisting of strings of pearls and precious stones, and what seem to be (fourth row from the top) models of cowries. (d) The Copan girdle (from Fig. ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... really got were three .475 cordites, two nine-millimeter Mannlichers, one eight-millimeter Mauser, and two .256 Mannlichers. We were switched off the .450s because a government regulation forbids the use of that caliber in Uganda, although it is permitted in British East Africa, and so we played safe by getting the .475s. This rifle is a heavy gun that carries a bullet large enough to jolt a fixed star and recoil enough to put one's starboard shoulder in the hospital for a day or so. Theoretically, the sportsman uses this weapon in ...
— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon
... We were going to India; we were going to East Africa... some one even mentioned Japan! There was a ...
— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave
... wrecks German cruiser Emden, which had destroyed more than $5,000,000 worth of British shipping; war risks drop in consequence; British Admiralty reports that the German cruiser Koenigsberg has been bottled up in the Rufiji River, German East Africa. ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various
... or to act as an instructor with officers who have fought in every corner of the world. The question asked in Parliament was entirely without my knowledge, and I deeply regret that it was asked." A few months later, with Mrs. Burnham and his younger son, Bruce, he journeyed to East Africa as director ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... private soldier, he left his colours as an artist, throwing up an established and hardly-won position in the world of his profession, into which—sent home shot and poisoned—he must now fight his way back. His ante-war experiences of sojourn and travel in India, South and East Africa, South America, Egypt and the Mediterranean should again stand him in good stead, for the more an artist has learned the more comprehensive his treasury of impressions and recollections; the more he has seen the more ...
— A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire • Harold Harvey |
