What is "schweinfurth"

Usage examples of "schweinfurth".

African pygmies who were sent to the King of Italy and shown in Rome resembled the pygmy travelers of Akka that Schweinfurth saw at the court of King Munza at Monbuttu.

The explorer Schweinfurth speaks of writing out in the evenings his memoranda respecting these people by the light of a little oil-lamp contrived by himself, which was supplied with some questionable-looking grease furnished by the natives.

Only a few years earlier, his friend Georg Schweinfurth had announced the discovery of a new whale species (Zeuglodon osiris—now called Basilosaurus) from the rocks of the Fayoum.

That wall-paper in Brixton's den has been loaded down with arsenic, probably Paris green or Schweinfurth green, which is aceto-arsenite of copper.