Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and StanleyG. Routledge, 1874 - 536 oldal |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
accompanied Africa afterwards animal appeared Arabs arms arrived attacked attendants Baker banks Barca Gana Barth beads boat Boo-Khaloum Bornou camels camp canoe Captain caravan carried cattle chief Clapperton cloth companions crocodiles desert distance doctor dressed elephant English escape escort expedition feet Felatahs fever Fezzan fire followed friends Gondokoro greatly guns hands head heard hippopotamus horse hundred huts hyæna inhabitants journey Kamrasi Kano Khartoum killed king Kouka Kukawa lake Lake Chad Lake Tanganyika Lander length lion Livingstone Mahommedan Major Denham Makololo Mandingo Manyema miles natives negro Niger night Nile Nyanza Nyassa obtained Park party passed present proceed proceeded reached received river round rushed seen seized Sekeletu sent Sesheke sheikh shore shot slaves soon spears Speke Stanley stream sultan tents told took town trade travellers trees tribe Tripoli Ujiji village voyage women Zambesi Zanzibar
Népszerű szakaszok
485. oldal - I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water — a boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles...
335. oldal - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
311. oldal - Still it was a sight that attracted one to it for hours — the roar of the waters, the thousands of passenger-fish, leaping at the falls with all their might, the Wasoga and Waganda fishermen coming out in boats and taking post on all the rocks with rod and hook, hippopotami and crocodiles lying sleepily on the water, the ferry at work above the falls, and cattle driven down to drink at the margin of the lake...
32. oldal - I was regarded with astonishment and fear, and was obliged to sit all day without victuals, in the shade of a tree; and the night threatened to be very uncomfortable, for the wind rose, and there was great appearance of a heavy rain ; and the wild beasts are so very numerous in the...
47. oldal - ... girl, belonging to one of the townspeople. The poor girl was ignorant of her fate, until the bundles were all tied up in the morning, and the coffle ready to depart; when, coming with some other young women to see the coffle set out, her master took her by the hand, and delivered her to the singing man. Never was a face of serenity more suddenly changed into one of the deepest distress : the terror she manifested on having the load put upon her head, and the rope fastened round her neck, and...
39. oldal - ... conjectured that a lion had taken one of the shepherds, and mounted my horse to have a better view of what had happened. The noise, however, ceased, and I rode slowly towards the place from whence I thought it had proceeded, calling out, but without receiving any answer.
122. oldal - He was seated on a small carpet, between two pillars supporting the roof of a thatched house, not unlike one of our cottages. The walls and pillars were painted blue and white, in the Moorish taste ; and on the back wall was sketched a...
42. oldal - Observe that boy," said he (pointing to a fine child about five years of age) ; " his mother has sold him to me for forty days' provision for herself and the rest of her family.
206. oldal - Bornu horsemen were killed, a great many more were brought in ; altogether they were said to have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater part of them being allowed to bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body.
335. oldal - In his reading, he tells us that he devoured all the books that came into his hands but novels, and that his plan was to place the book on a portion of the spinning-jenny, so that he could catch sentence after sentence as he passed at his work. The...