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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99. oldal
... boat , and went down the river to Silla . + At this place , our traveller found himself too sick and too much worn down , to proceed farther . He was very anxious to go to Tombuctoo , which was now but two hundred miles off . Fearing ...
... boat , and went down the river to Silla . + At this place , our traveller found himself too sick and too much worn down , to proceed farther . He was very anxious to go to Tombuctoo , which was now but two hundred miles off . Fearing ...
102. oldal
... boat builders , thirty - six soldiers , and a Mandingo priest , whose name was Isaaco , to serve as a guide and interpreter . The party was provided with about fifty asses to carry their baggage . They were also accompa- nied by Mr ...
... boat builders , thirty - six soldiers , and a Mandingo priest , whose name was Isaaco , to serve as a guide and interpreter . The party was provided with about fifty asses to carry their baggage . They were also accompa- nied by Mr ...
103. oldal
... boat builders with which he started , one only was living , and of the thirty - six soldiers , all but six were dead ! I will relate to you a few of the adventures of the travellers , on their way from the Gambia to the Niger . In the ...
... boat builders with which he started , one only was living , and of the thirty - six soldiers , all but six were dead ! I will relate to you a few of the adventures of the travellers , on their way from the Gambia to the Niger . In the ...
111. oldal
... boat defended themselves with the utmost bra- very ; but that , being overpowered by numbers , all the white men perished . This melancholy event , is supposed to have taken place about four months after their departure from Sansanding ...
... boat defended themselves with the utmost bra- very ; but that , being overpowered by numbers , all the white men perished . This melancholy event , is supposed to have taken place about four months after their departure from Sansanding ...
112. oldal
... boat belonging to that ship . They sailed or rowed along the northern bank of the river ; and their progress , especially in the evening , was peculiarly agreea- ble : lofty mangrove trees overhung the boat : a great variety of palm ...
... boat belonging to that ship . They sailed or rowed along the northern bank of the river ; and their progress , especially in the evening , was peculiarly agreea- ble : lofty mangrove trees overhung the boat : a great variety of palm ...
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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...