Travels in the Interior of AfricaA. and C. Black, 1878 - 392 trang |
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accordingly Africa afternoon Ali's appeared Arabic arrived asses Bambarra banks Benowm blacksmith Bondou brought bullock bundles Bushreens calabash canoe carried cattle cloth coffle corn course cowries Daisy Damel Demba departed Desert Dooty dress European favourable Foulahs frequently Gambia gold Goomba hand horse horsemen hyænas immediately informed inhabitants Isaaco Jarra Joag Kaarta Kafirs Kamalia Karfa Kasson Kemmoo king's kingdom Kooniakary kouskous Laidley lodging Ludamar Mahomedan Mandingo manner Mansa Mansong miles Moorish Moors morning muskets natives Negroes Niger night noon o'clock observed PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY passed person plunder prayers present procure provisions purchase rain reached received river river Senegal road rode round salt sand Sansanding saphie Sego Senegal Senegal river sent Serawoolli shea butter situation Slatees slaves soon stopped strangers sunset Teesee tent thought Timbuctoo told took town called travelled tree victuals village wild hog women woods
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Trang 226 - 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! Reflections like these, would not allow me to despair. I started up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand; and I was not disappointed.
Trang 225 - ... 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 ! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair.
Trang 179 - ... (see the water) ; and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission ; the long sought 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 drank 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.
Trang 182 - 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.
Trang 386 - They 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.
Trang 287 - And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Trang 180 - The view of this extensive city ; the numerous canoes upon the river ; the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.
Trang 162 - A little before sunset, having reached the top of a gentle rising, I climbed a high tree, from the topmost branches of which I cast a melancholy look over the barren Wilderness, but without discovering the most distant trace of a human dwelling. The same dismal uniformity of shrubs and sand every where presented itself, and the horizon was as level and uninterrupted as that of the sea.
Trang 117 - Sahara, and that whilst she was alive the piece of iron would always point that way, and serve as a guide to conduct me to her, and that if she was dead it would point to her grave. Ali now looked at the compass with redoubled amazement; turned it round and round repeatedly; but observing that it always pointed the same way, he took it up with great caution and returned it to me, manifesting that he thought there was something of magic in it, and that he was afraid of keeping so dangerous an instrument...
Trang 145 - ... expanse of sand and sky ; a gloomy and barren void, where the eye finds no particular object to rest upon, and the mind is filled with painful apprehensions of perishing with thirst. " Surrounded by this dreary solitude, the traveller sees the dead bodies of birds, that the violence of the wind has brought from happier regions ; and, as he ruminates on the fearful length of his remaining passage, listens with horror to the voice of the driving blast ; the only sound that interrupts the awful...