 | William Bingley - 1803 - 524 oldal
...subject, that to many persons would appear extremely insignificant. " Whichever way I turned," says he, "1 saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...naked and alone: surrounded by savage animals, and by Men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1809 - 234 oldal
...describes in such an affecting manner, I shall quote his own words. " Whichever way I turned," says he, " I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in...naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and by men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1813 - 374 oldal
...probably the reason they did not wish to keep it. After they were gone 1 sat for some time, iooking around me with amazement and terror. Which ever way...in the depth of the rainy season ; naked and alone j surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. 1 was five hundred miles from the nearest... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 oldal
...religion tranquillizing his heart at this awful moment, when he was in the midst of a vast wilderness, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage, and 500 miles from the nearest European settlement ; even at that moment he could view with delight... | |
 | 1843 - 684 oldal
...be given, and thy water sure." " Whatever way I turned," says Mungo Park, in one of his travels, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw...hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1825 - 188 oldal
...religion tranquillizing his heart at this awful moment, when he was in the midst of a vast wilderness — naked and alone — surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage, and five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement ; even at that moment he could view with... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 oldal
...Park's own words : . • . " Which ever way I turned,1" said this apparently, forlorn traveller, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest Euro-, pean settlement. All these circumstances crowded at. once on my recollection ; and I confess... | |
 | George Johnston - 1829 - 636 oldal
...quoted, is too much to my purpose to be here omitted. " Whichever way I turned," says the traveller, " I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in...naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and by men still more savage. I was 500 miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances crowded... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 oldal
...touch that, or any other article, he would immediately shoot him dead on the spot. He was thus left in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, without food, and without the means of procuring it ; surrounded by savage animals, and by men still... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 oldal
...waste its sweetness in the desert air."—GHAT. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, WHICHEVER way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty....hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in germination... | |
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I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season ; naked and alone; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. 
