A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, 3. kötetMackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 58 találatból.
5. oldal
... slave laid hold of me by the hand , and placed me in a passage , at the end of which were two opposite doors . I did not well know the rea son of this ; but had staid only a few minutes when I heard one of the doors at the end of the ...
... slave laid hold of me by the hand , and placed me in a passage , at the end of which were two opposite doors . I did not well know the rea son of this ; but had staid only a few minutes when I heard one of the doors at the end of the ...
17. oldal
... slaves , ivory , and gold , was in their hands . Mr. Park , while domesticated at Dr. Laidley's , applied himself to learning of the Mandingo tongue , in which he was greatly assisted by his friend . To collect information of the ...
... slaves , ivory , and gold , was in their hands . Mr. Park , while domesticated at Dr. Laidley's , applied himself to learning of the Mandingo tongue , in which he was greatly assisted by his friend . To collect information of the ...
20. oldal
... slave of life , nor sell him to a stranger , without first calling a palaver on his conduct , or bringing him to a public trial . Captives taken in war , and those condemned to slavery for crimes or insolvency , have no security ...
... slave of life , nor sell him to a stranger , without first calling a palaver on his conduct , or bringing him to a public trial . Captives taken in war , and those condemned to slavery for crimes or insolvency , have no security ...
21. oldal
... slaves among his servants , and their offspring becomes entitled to all the privileges of nature . On the river ... slave - merchants , of the Serawoolli nation , accompanied him as far as their journey extended , as did likewise a negro ...
... slaves among his servants , and their offspring becomes entitled to all the privileges of nature . On the river ... slave - merchants , of the Serawoolli nation , accompanied him as far as their journey extended , as did likewise a negro ...
28. oldal
... slaves or gold ? Being answered in the negative , he seemed surprized , but desired Mr. Park to come in the evening , when he would give him some provisions . This monarch was called Almami , a Moorish name , though he was not a ...
... slaves or gold ? Being answered in the negative , he seemed surprized , but desired Mr. Park to come in the evening , when he would give him some provisions . This monarch was called Almami , a Moorish name , though he was not a ...
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Albuquerque Algiers ambassador animals appeared Arabs arrived attended Barrow Bosjesmans Bramins Calicut called Cape Cape Town carried cast cattle ceremony chief China Chinese cloth coast colour conduct considered consists covered Damel distance dogs dress emperor English eunuchs European feet fish frequently Gama Gambia George Staunton ground hands head Hindostan horse Hottentot immediately India inhabitants journey Kaffer Kamalia Kamtschadales Kasloff kind king king of Portugal kloof Koriacs labour land lord Cornwallis Mandingo manner miles Moors morning mountains Mysore natives negroes never Niger night observed occasion officers Ormuz ostrog palace Park passed Pei-ho person Portugueze present prince proceeded procure province provisions received river sailed saphie says scarcely seemed sent Seringapatam shew ships side situation skin slaves sledge soldiers surprize Tartar Tippoo took town traveller trees vessels village walls whole women wood
Népszerű szakaszok
199. oldal - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
356. oldal - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
92. oldal - With the assistance of one of the soldiers I have changed a large canoe into a tolerably good schooner, on board of which I this day hoisted the British flag, and shall set sail to the east with the fixed resolution to discover the termination of the Niger or perish in the attempt.
10. oldal - ... the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
92. oldal - 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.
56. 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.
10. oldal - I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of...
8. oldal - NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
171. oldal - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move.
307. oldal - Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.