Economic activity is largely confined to the riverine area irrigated by the Niger.
My outfit at Banza Nokki was wholly insufficient; the riverine races were no longer tractable as in the days of his father, when white men first visited the land.
From these men the Portuguese learned that the land belonged to a great monarch named the Mwani-Congo or Lord of Congo, and thus they gave the river a name unknown to the riverine peoples.
If reports concerning mines on the plateau be trustworthy, there will be a rush of white hands, which must at once change, and radically change, all the conditions of the riverine country.
This egg-laying operation is a grand affair for the riverine Indians of the Amazon and its tributaries.
The riverine villages had all been deserted, and the tributary down which he had travelled was at all times little frequented.
But his paddlers were no doubt pressed men from the riverine villages, costing nothing and having no rights, and a Congo State commandant in a hurry would not hesitate to drive them.
He was only a fair swimmer; his pursuers, drawn from one of the riverine villages of the Lower Congo, were as dexterous in the water as they were in the canoe.
Near by the fellah worked in his onion-field; and on the khiassas loaded with feddan at the shore, just out of the current, and tied up for the night, sat the riverine folk eating their dourha and drinking black coffee.
Since I came out here I've been a sort of riverine missionary, an apostle with no followers, a reformer with a plan of salvation no one will accept.
From Rivoli to Friedland his career abounds in examples of riverine tactics.
He was a native son, born of prosperous parents in the riverine town of Mompox, which, until the erratic Magdalena sought for itself a new channel, was the chief port between Barranquilla and the distant Honda.
She died at the little riverine town of Badillo, after her babe, Carmen, was born.
Sitting in the rounded bow of the wretchedriverine steamer Honda, Padre Josè de Rincón gazed with vacant eyes upon the scenery on either hand.
He had made the trip with astonishing celerity, and had arrived at the riverine town just as a large steamer was docking.
It is prevalent in the whole of the riverine and inland districts.
In the riverine district I estimate that quite half of the deaths are from sleep-sickness.
I suggest the following as immediately needful for the riverine people:-- 1.
In the inland districts I am not yet able to say whether it is more prevalent than in the riverine one; that can only be ascertained by a more prolonged residence there than as yet I have had opportunity to make.
At the foot of the hill, on the riverine plain, stretches the old-time village with its roofs of palm.
He spoke little of his own exploits in Brazil and Peru, but it was a revelation to me to find the excitement which was caused by his presence among the riverine natives, who looked upon him as their champion and protector.
Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes.
Beveridge, "Of the Aborigines inhabiting the great Lacustrine andRiverine Depression of the Lower Murray," etc.
The great Riverine district, which is one vast series of squattages .
The sign of peace with these riverine natives appears to be the pouring of water on their heads with their hands.
North of the Bwamburi, a day's march, begins the tribes of the Ababua and the Mabode, who have a different kind of architecture from the steeply conical huts prevailing among the riverine tribes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riverine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
