africana

Updated: June 27, 2025

Of the large class of books reporting the manners and beliefs of special savage races we may specify D. G. Brinton, The Myths of the New World, 1896. W. W. Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, 1876. Kingsley, Miss, West African Studies, 1899. Callaway, The Religious System of the Amazulu, 1863-72. Duff Macdonald, Africana, the Heart of Heathen Africa, 1882.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

This sharpness of the claws allows the bird to cling to the nearly insensible cuticle without irritating the nerves of pain on the true skin, exactly as a burr does to the human hand; but in the case of the 'Buphaga Africana' and 'erythrorhyncha', other food is partaken of, for we observed flocks of them roosting on the reeds, in spots where neither tame nor wild animals were to be found.

David Livingstone - Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

It was the Parra Africana. Then there were numbers of the pretty little wader, which looked exactly as if it was standing on stilts, from the length of its legs, while its bill appeared to be bent upwards, instead of downwards, as Leo declared it ought to be. David called it an avocet. "See," said David, "the use of its bill!"

William Henry Giles Kingston - In the Wilds of Africa