 | 606 oldal
...ran thus : — " The winds roared, and the rain fell ; the poor Mango Park and the little Moss-Jhwer. white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our...no mother to bring him milk ; no •wife to grind him corn. Clmnis : Let us pity the •white man ; no mother has he." Upon bidding the old woman farewell... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 oldal
...a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...mother to bring him milk; No wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man; No mother has he, etc. (P. 80 According to the Chadwicks the same facility... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - 1981 - 770 oldal
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. — 'The winds roared, and the rains fell. — The poor...no wife to grind his corn. Chorus . Let us pity the white man; no mother has he, &c. , &c. ' Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey Professor of History Northwestern University - 1987 - 442 oldal
...physician was the subject of a song created extemporaneously, sparked by the humanity of African women: The winds roared, and the rains fell The poor white...No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS Let us pity the white man No mother has he. ... At another point, Park writes, "The rites of hospitality thus being... | |
 | Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff - 1991 - 613 oldal
...(1799: 198): The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. — "The winds roared, and the rains fell. — The poor...Chorus. Let us pity the poor white man; no mother has he, etc. etc." This image of an Africa eager to play mother nature to the orphaned white man far from... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1993 - 460 oldal
...swoot and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these :— The wind roared, and tho rain fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under out treo. Ho has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn, Cuonus. Let us pity tlto... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey - 1994 - 314 oldal
...and Ledyard in Melville's Benito Cereno," English Language Notes, III (December 1965), pp. 122-23. The winds roared, and the rains fell The poor white...No wife to grind his corn. Chorus Let us pity the white man No mother has he. . . . 5 For the gentle black female described by Mungo Park to have become,... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 oldal
...a sort of chime. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: The winds roared and the rains fell; the poor white...mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man, no mother has he,'"" etc., etc. Perhaps I may be pardoned the intrusion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 oldal
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words., literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell.— The poor...— He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to gvind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white no mother has. he to bring him milk 5 man rii rnoiniafuouii... | |
 | Eileen Southern - 1997 - 710 oldal
...rest joining in a sort of chorus." The following is Park's literal translation of the spinners' song: The winds roared, and the rains fell; The poor white...No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS Let us pity the white man No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn. The song of the spinners represents... | |
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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. 
