Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; Including the Substance of Dr. Leyden's Work on that Subject, 1. kötetA. Constable, 1818 |
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19. oldal
... covered with hair , suggested the idea of those grotesque deities , by which super - ` stition supposed the woods to be peopled . To these monsters they gave the name of Gorillæ . The males evaded all pursuit ; they climbed pre- cipices ...
... covered with hair , suggested the idea of those grotesque deities , by which super - ` stition supposed the woods to be peopled . To these monsters they gave the name of Gorillæ . The males evaded all pursuit ; they climbed pre- cipices ...
30. oldal
... covered . All the nations who inhabited within or beyond the desert were generally known by the name of Ethiopians . The term becomes thus nearly syno- nymous with that of Negro , though it does not always imply complete blackness of ...
... covered . All the nations who inhabited within or beyond the desert were generally known by the name of Ethiopians . The term becomes thus nearly syno- nymous with that of Negro , though it does not always imply complete blackness of ...
34. oldal
... covered with luxuriant verdure , flowing rivulets , and all the beauties of perpetual spring . The king then sought the most aged of the interpreters of the oracle , and inquired his own origin and destiny , The spears of the invincible ...
... covered with luxuriant verdure , flowing rivulets , and all the beauties of perpetual spring . The king then sought the most aged of the interpreters of the oracle , and inquired his own origin and destiny , The spears of the invincible ...
38. oldal
... covered with kingdoms , in which Ma- hometans formed a numerous , and the ruling part of the population . Of these kingdoms , according to the unanimous testimony of the Arabian writers , the most powerful and splendid was Ghana , situ ...
... covered with kingdoms , in which Ma- hometans formed a numerous , and the ruling part of the population . Of these kingdoms , according to the unanimous testimony of the Arabian writers , the most powerful and splendid was Ghana , situ ...
39. oldal
... covering . To the sovereign of Ghana was also subject Wangara , or the land of gold , considered proba- bly as the brightest jewel in his crown . The gold here , as over all the rest of Africa , is represented as entirely alluvial , and ...
... covering . To the sovereign of Ghana was also subject Wangara , or the land of gold , considered proba- bly as the brightest jewel in his crown . The gold here , as over all the rest of Africa , is represented as entirely alluvial , and ...
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Africa Agadez appeared Arabs arrived Bambarra Bambouk banks began boat Bornou Brue called camels canoes Cape Captain Tuckey caravan carried Cassina Chenoo chief chiefly Christian cloth coast Congo consisted contained covered Damel Darfûr desert discovery distance Egypt English entirely European expedition extremely father favour Fezzan formed Foulahs French Gallam Gambia gold ground Herodotus Horneman horse immediately inhabitants interior Jobson journey Kaarta Kasson king kingdom Kordofan Mahometan Mandingo manner Marabout Marocco ment merchants Merolla miles missionaries Mogadore monarch Moorish Moors mountains narch narrative natives navigation negroes neighbouring Niger observed Park party passed person Podor Portuguese present prince proceeded procured reached received region residence Rhapta river rocks route sail sand saphie seems Sego seized Senegal sent shewed shore Sidi situated slaves soon sovereign species tion Tombuctoo town trade traveller trees tribes Tripoli vessel village voyage Wangara whole wild
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481. oldal - I shall only observe that no event which took place during the journey, ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr. Anderson in the grave. I then felt myself, as if left a second time lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa.
378. oldal - 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.
309. oldal - Not haughty, nor arrogant, not supercilious, they are full of courtesy, and fond of society; more liable, in general, to err, than man ; but in general, also, more virtuous, and performing more good actions than he.
485. oldal - ... threw every thing they had in the canoe into the river, and kept firing; but being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men, and jumped into the water; Martyn did the same, and they were drowned in the stream in attempting to escape.
391. oldal - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? Surely not!
310. oldal - I have known both hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman ; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have owned, or ever will own, to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose.
303. oldal - Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
309. oldal - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
473. oldal - ... M'Keal appears to be slightly delirious). We kept ascending the mountains to the south of Toniba till three o'clock, at which time, having gained the summit of the ridge which separates the Niger from the remote branches of the Senegal, I went on a little before ; and coming to the brow of the hill, I once more saw the Niger rolling its immense stream along the plain!
484. oldal - The king immediately ordered me to be put in irons ; which was accordingly done, and every thing I had taken from me : some were for killing me, and some for preserving my life. The next morning early, the King sent an army to a village called Boussa, near the river side — There is before this village a rock across the whole breadth of the river.