... Delta: so named because it resembled the Greek capitalletter Delta, Δ, corresponding to the English D; hence atriangular-shaped piece of land... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...This was greatly in my favor, for it anchored in the middle of the stream, and gave me some rest from the mosquitoes, which in the whole of the delta are something frightful...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... I suffered from another attack of fever at this camp, brought on by the neighbourhood of the vile delta, the look of which sickened the very heart in me...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The idea of reincarnation is very strong in the Niger Delta tribes...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...He may know, surely and well, that killing slaves and womenat a dead brother’s grave means hanging for him when their BigConsul knows of it, but in the Delta he will do it...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
... signifies neither more nor less thanthat it discharges itself at the Delta in Egypt...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...In fact all the bank about Boma, like the lower delta, urgently calls for re-surveying...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
... The largest delta at present known is the Nigerian, whose base measures 155 direct geographical miles between the Rivers Kontoro east, and Benin west...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...On a Collectionof Birds and Mammals from the Colorado Delta, Lower California...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...“Caribou”: Godsell, 1934: 273-276 (trade with Eskimos on Arctic coastresulting in great slaughter of caribou); 276 (importation of reindeerto Mackenzie Delta region to replace caribou)...
Francis Harper 「The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin」
...Two specimens from Bagdad, Tamaulipas, in the delta of the Río Grande(Nos...
E. Raymond Hall 「Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico」
...Asimilar belief in the external souls of living people isentertained by the Ibos, an important tribe of the Niger delta...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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