Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in AfricaHarper & Bros., 1842 - 359 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
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 Jenne journey Kano king kingdom lake land Lattakoo length limestone Major Denham miles Morocco mountains Mourzouk native nature nearly negro Niger Nubia observed occur ocean Park party passed peculiar plain Portuguese present Prester John prince quartz race reached regions remarkable river rocks salt sand sandstone savage scarcely seen Senegal sent sheik shores Sierra Leone slaves soon Southern Africa species sultan Timbuctoo tion town traveller trees tribe Tripoli trona Tuaricks village voyage whole wild
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Página 357 - 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.
Página 90 - 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.
Página 106 - 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.
Página 91 - 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.
Página 357 - The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining...
Página 263 - SE 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. It was in vain to think of flying: the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship, could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood.
Página 338 - The ostrich moves likes 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...
Página 91 - 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.
Página 185 - 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.
Página 356 - 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...