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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15. oldal
... wall , and has eight gates . It has a neat appearance . The English travellers were looked after with great wonder by the people . The boys followed them in troops through the streets , and the women manifested the utmost curiosity res ...
... wall , and has eight gates . It has a neat appearance . The English travellers were looked after with great wonder by the people . The boys followed them in troops through the streets , and the women manifested the utmost curiosity res ...
18. oldal
... wall twenty feet high , with gates only wide enough to admit a loaded camel . It has several thousand inhabitants , and is the capital of Fezzan . Fezzan is a considerable country , situated in the great desert . It is toler- ably ...
... wall twenty feet high , with gates only wide enough to admit a loaded camel . It has several thousand inhabitants , and is the capital of Fezzan . Fezzan is a considerable country , situated in the great desert . It is toler- ably ...
24. oldal
... walls . The travellers at length arrived at Ghraat This is in the country of the Tuaricks . The Tuaricks are a tribe of people who seem very much to resemble the Arabs . They are great rob- bers , and often make incursions into the ...
... walls . The travellers at length arrived at Ghraat This is in the country of the Tuaricks . The Tuaricks are a tribe of people who seem very much to resemble the Arabs . They are great rob- bers , and often make incursions into the ...
25. oldal
... walls . There is but one gate to the town . The Tuaricks , are said to be great eaters . Some of the people told Dr. Oudney , that two Tuaricks had once devoured three sheep at a meal . This was a great story , or they were very small ...
... walls . There is but one gate to the town . The Tuaricks , are said to be great eaters . Some of the people told Dr. Oudney , that two Tuaricks had once devoured three sheep at a meal . This was a great story , or they were very small ...
40. oldal
... walls of earth fourteen or fifteen feet high . Here they received a message from the Sheik of Kouka , giving them permission to come there . The Sheik also sent them a present of fifteen bullocks , six sheep , and a large quantity of ...
... walls of earth fourteen or fifteen feet high . Here they received a message from the Sheik of Kouka , giving them permission to come there . The Sheik also sent them a present of fifteen bullocks , six sheep , and a large quantity of ...
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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...