Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyJ. & J. Harper, 1833 - 359 oldal |
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... Sand of the Desert rest ? -Description of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and native Meteoric Iron in the Desert - Observations on the Sand of the Desert - Moving Pillars of Sand - Sand - wind - How the prevailing Winds affect the Sand ...
... Sand of the Desert rest ? -Description of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and native Meteoric Iron in the Desert - Observations on the Sand of the Desert - Moving Pillars of Sand - Sand - wind - How the prevailing Winds affect the Sand ...
x. oldal
... Sand confounded with Coral , and adduced as a Proof of the very recent Emergence from the Ocean of the Lands supporting them - Geology of the Table - land , properly so called - Ac- count of the Sibilo of the Africans -- Geological ...
... Sand confounded with Coral , and adduced as a Proof of the very recent Emergence from the Ocean of the Lands supporting them - Geology of the Table - land , properly so called - Ac- count of the Sibilo of the Africans -- Geological ...
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... sand form a feature so truly alarming . The Great Desert , with the exception of the narrow valley of the Nile , reaches across the entire continent , exhibiting an expanse of burning surface , where for many days the tra- veller finds ...
... sand form a feature so truly alarming . The Great Desert , with the exception of the narrow valley of the Nile , reaches across the entire continent , exhibiting an expanse of burning surface , where for many days the tra- veller finds ...
15. oldal
... sand , al- ternating with a hard and impenetrable stratum of clay . The central wastes of Asia , those of Arabia and of Sindetic Hindostan , though inferior to those of Africa , are yet of si- milar character , and of immense extent ...
... sand , al- ternating with a hard and impenetrable stratum of clay . The central wastes of Asia , those of Arabia and of Sindetic Hindostan , though inferior to those of Africa , are yet of si- milar character , and of immense extent ...
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... sand , distilling those rich gums that afford an important material of African commerce . The lotus , a celebrated and classical shrub , the tamarisk , and other small and elegant trecs , afford agreeable and nutritive berries , which ...
... sand , distilling those rich gums that afford an important material of African commerce . The lotus , a celebrated and classical shrub , the tamarisk , and other small and elegant trecs , afford agreeable and nutritive berries , which ...
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amid ancient animals appeared Arabs arrived Bambarra banks Barca Gana beautiful Benin bird Boo Khalloom borders Bornou Caillié called camels Cape Captain caravan chief Clapperton coast colour continent covered Desert Devil's Peak district earth Egypt elephants English Europe European expedition extending feet Fellatas female Fezzan frequently Gambia genus gneiss gold granite greywacke ground head Herodotus hills Hope horse Houssa immense inhabitants interior island journey Kano king kingdom lake land Lattakoo length limestone Major Denham miles Morocco mountains Mourzouk native nature nearly negro Niger northern Nubia observed occur ocean Park party passed peculiar plain Portuguese present Prester John prince quartz race reached regions remarkable river rocks salt sand sandstone scarcely Senegal sent sheik shores Sierra Leone slaves soon Southern Africa species sultan Table Mountain Timbuctoo tion town traveller trees tribe Tripoli trona Tuaricks village voyage whole wild
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353. oldal - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
89. 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.
104. 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.
88. oldal - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the longsought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
334. oldal - The ostrich moves like the partridge, with this advantage ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest race-horses that were ever bred in England : it is true they would not hold out so long as a horse, but they would undoubtedly be able to go over the space in less time. I have frequently beheld this sight, which is capable of giving one an idea of the prodigious strength of an ostrich, and of showing what use it might be of, had we but the method of breaking...
259. oldal - They retired from us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in it was fear, with a considerable deal of wonder and astonishment.
183. oldal - He then took my hand betwixt his, and looking me full in the face, while a tear stood glistening in his eye, said, in a low but deeply affecting tone, 'My dear Richard, if you had not been with me, I should have died long ago; I can only thank you, with my latest breath, for your kindness and attachment to me, and if I could have lived to return with you, you should have been placed beyond the reach of want; but God will reward you.
259. oldal - We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to 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 very few...
352. oldal - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain ; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand : A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness...
335. oldal - Then, where of Indian hills the daylight takes His leave, how might you the flamingo see Disporting like a meteor on the lakes — And playful squirrel on his nut-grown tree : And every sound of life was full of glee, From merry mock-bird's song, or hum of men ; While hearkening, fearing nought their revelry, The wild deer arch'd his neck from glades, and then, Unhunted, sought his woods and wilderness again.