Tales of Travels in Central Africa: Including Denham and Clapperton's Expedition, Park's First and Second Journey, Tuckey's Voyage Up the Congo, Bowditch's Account of the Mission to Ashantee, Clapperton's Second Expedition, and Caillie 's Travels to TimbuctooGray and Bowen, 1831 - 158 oldal |
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10. oldal
... Barca Gana .--- Return of the army .--- About Hippopotami .--- The rainy season .--- Hyenas .--- Lions .--- Story of a Lion . --- Musquittoes .--- Flies .--- Ants . CHAPTER IX . Bornou Dancing .--- About the women .--- Major Denham goes ...
... Barca Gana .--- Return of the army .--- About Hippopotami .--- The rainy season .--- Hyenas .--- Lions .--- Story of a Lion . --- Musquittoes .--- Flies .--- Ants . CHAPTER IX . Bornou Dancing .--- About the women .--- Major Denham goes ...
49. oldal
... Barca Gana approached the Sultan with pro- found reverence . The Sultan was seated on a carpet thrown over a bench of mud . Barca Gana sat down before the Sultan , with his back toward him . He clapped his hands together , exclaiming ...
... Barca Gana approached the Sultan with pro- found reverence . The Sultan was seated on a carpet thrown over a bench of mud . Barca Gana sat down before the Sultan , with his back toward him . He clapped his hands together , exclaiming ...
52. oldal
... Barca Gana , Boo - kha - loom , and their men , the Sultan of Mandara and some of his troops . They were going on an expedition against the Felatahs , to the south of Mandara . The ob- ject of the expedition , was , to plunder these ...
... Barca Gana , Boo - kha - loom , and their men , the Sultan of Mandara and some of his troops . They were going on an expedition against the Felatahs , to the south of Mandara . The ob- ject of the expedition , was , to plunder these ...
55. oldal
... Barca Gana's people all wore red scarfs over their steel jackets . Major Denham rode by the side of Barca Gana . Every thing wore the aspect of war , and the army IN CENTRAL AFRICA . 55.
... Barca Gana's people all wore red scarfs over their steel jackets . Major Denham rode by the side of Barca Gana . Every thing wore the aspect of war , and the army IN CENTRAL AFRICA . 55.
57. oldal
... Barca Gana , whose muscular arm was almost gigantic , threw eight spears , every one of which entered the body of a Felatah . But notwithstanding the bravery of Barca Gana , Boo - kha - loom , and their men , the arrows and spears came ...
... Barca Gana , whose muscular arm was almost gigantic , threw eight spears , every one of which entered the body of a Felatah . But notwithstanding the bravery of Barca Gana , Boo - kha - loom , and their men , the arrows and spears came ...
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animals Arabs army arrived Atlantic ocean Barca Gana Bashaw beasts beautiful Bilma birds boat Boo-kha-loom Boussa Caillié CAILLIE'S TRAVELS camels Capt Captain Clapperton Captain Tuckey caravan Central Africa CHAPTER CLAPPERTON'S EXPEDITION cloth Congo Coomassie dance desert dress drums elephants England Felatahs fell Fezzan Foulahs Gambia gold hills hippopotami horse houses hundred huts INCLUDING DENHAM Isaaco Jannah journey Kafila Kano killed king Kouka lake Tchad length Lieutenant Martyn lion Magaria Mahometan Major Denham Mandingoes miles MISSION TO ASHANTEE morning Morocco Mourzouk negro Niger night Oudney Park Park's party persons perton proceeded reached river river Gambia Sackatoo sand Sergeant Sheik of Bornou slaves Sockna soldiers Solomon Bell sometimes soon spears Sultan of Mandara surrounded thousand inhabitants Tibboos told town Travels in Central TRAVELS TO TIMBUCTOO trees Tripoli troops Tuaricks TUCKEY'S VOYAGE villages walls western coast wild wives women woods
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89. oldal - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
102. oldal - My dear friend Mr. Anderson and likewise Mr. Scott are both dead; but though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere; and if I could not succeed in the object of my journey, I would at last die on the Niger.
138. oldal - Jenne" is full of bustle and animation ; every day numerous caravans of merchants are arriving and departing with all kinds of useful productions. In...
111. oldal - The king, his tributaries, and captains, were resplendent in the distance, surrounded by attendants of every description, fronted by a mass of warriors. which seemed to make our approach impervious. The sun was reflected, with a glare scarcely more supportable than the heat, from the massy gold ornaments, which glistened in every direction.
126. oldal - ... sheets of burnished gold and silver. The smoking fires on its banks, the sounding of horns, the beating of their gongs or drums, the braying of their brass and tin trumpets, the rude huts of grass or branches of trees rising as if by magic, every where the calls on the names of Mahomed, Abdo, Mustafa, &c., with the neighing of horses and the braying of asses, gave animation to the beautiful scenery of the lake, and its sloping green and woody banks.
110. oldal - We entered Coomassie at two o'clock, passing under a fetish, or sacrifice of a dead sheep, wrapped up in red silk, and suspended between two lofty poles. Upwards of 5000 people, the greater part warriors, met us with awful bursts of martial music, discordant only in its mixture ; for horns, drums, rattles, and gong-gongs, were all exerted with a zeal bordering on frenzy, to subdue us by the first impression. The smoke which encircled us from the...