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"Clapperton," said the captain, "we've been enemies all this term.
The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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“Once the public has allowed the system to be established, it is much easier to block other material,” Clapperton said.
Archive 2008-10-01 Deft 2008
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“Once the public has allowed the system to be established, it is much easier to block other material,” Clapperton said.
Trialled In China... Patrick Vessey 2008
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In the early 1820s, the British explorers Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton found the caravan routes of the western Sudan “lined on either side by human remains,” with the ground around the wells “covered with whitened bones” and the desiccated corpses of children.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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In the early 1820s, the British explorers Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton found the caravan routes of the western Sudan “lined on either side by human remains,” with the ground around the wells “covered with whitened bones” and the desiccated corpses of children.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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In the early 1820s, the British explorers Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton found the caravan routes of the western Sudan “lined on either side by human remains,” with the ground around the wells “covered with whitened bones” and the desiccated corpses of children.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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They mention in passing that the nearby George VI Ice Shelf is thought to have been non-existent during a mid-Holocene warm period, but has subsequently re-formed since 6000 BP Clapperton 1990.
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Of Denham, of Clapperton, of Oudeny, and of the many who have sacrificed their valuable lives to the pestilence of that climate or to the ferocity of its inhabitants? —
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Denham and Clapperton; Dr. Livingstone, in multiplying his fearless explorations from the Cape of Good Hope to the basin of the
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This was Captain Clapperton, the companion of Denham.
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