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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20. oldal
... entered Sockna . Here Major Denham remained several days . While here , he witnessed a wedding between two young people of Sockna . The morning was ushered in with music on a bagpipe , and two small drums . The musicians first serenaded ...
... entered Sockna . Here Major Denham remained several days . While here , he witnessed a wedding between two young people of Sockna . The morning was ushered in with music on a bagpipe , and two small drums . The musicians first serenaded ...
21. oldal
... entered the house , and were declared man and wife . Major Denham and his escort , soon set out for Mourzouk . While they were on their journey they had a rainy day , in consequence of which , they found plenty of water . Rain is ...
... entered the house , and were declared man and wife . Major Denham and his escort , soon set out for Mourzouk . While they were on their journey they had a rainy day , in consequence of which , they found plenty of water . Rain is ...
27. oldal
... entered the town , the women dancing , screaming , singing , and throwing themselves about in a very odd manner . The people were quite black . The women wore coral rings in their noses , and large amber necklaces . Some of them had ...
... entered the town , the women dancing , screaming , singing , and throwing themselves about in a very odd manner . The people were quite black . The women wore coral rings in their noses , and large amber necklaces . Some of them had ...
29. oldal
... entered upon a vast desert which required thirteen days to cross . It is chiefly composed of hills of loose sand , from twenty to sixty feet in height . The banks of these hills are very frequently steep , and in de- scending , the ...
... entered upon a vast desert which required thirteen days to cross . It is chiefly composed of hills of loose sand , from twenty to sixty feet in height . The banks of these hills are very frequently steep , and in de- scending , the ...
53. oldal
... entered a mountainous country . Some of the peaks were lofty , and presented scenes of great wildness and beauty . One of the passes in these mountains consisted of a deep , dark chasm , over which the perpendicular rocks hung their ...
... entered a mountainous country . Some of the peaks were lofty , and presented scenes of great wildness and beauty . One of the passes in these mountains consisted of a deep , dark chasm , over which the perpendicular rocks hung their ...
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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
Népszerű szakaszok
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...