Tales about Travellers: Their Perils, Adventures, and DiscoveriesT.J. Allman, 1864 - 194 Seiten Factual information about the explorations of John Ledyard, Mungo Park, John Burckhardt, Major Dixon Denham, Captain Hugh Clapperton, and John Davidson within a fictional framework. |
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... named Langhorn . But Ledyard was not of a disposition to foresee difficulties . He freely bestowed his money on Langhorn , and spent some days in his society , and when it was time to resume his journey , he found he could not do so ...
... named Langhorn . But Ledyard was not of a disposition to foresee difficulties . He freely bestowed his money on Langhorn , and spent some days in his society , and when it was time to resume his journey , he found he could not do so ...
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... - ing a letter of introduction to an European , named Laidley , who lived at Pisania , sixteen miles higher up the river , he proceeded thither . From this gentleman he received the greatest attention , and 34 TALES ABOUT TRAVELLERS .
... - ing a letter of introduction to an European , named Laidley , who lived at Pisania , sixteen miles higher up the river , he proceeded thither . From this gentleman he received the greatest attention , and 34 TALES ABOUT TRAVELLERS .
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... named Karfa Taura , who , though a dealer in slaves , was a man of kind and humane disposition . Park found him reading an Arabic book to several persons . Karfa asked Park if he understood Arabic , and on being answered in the negative ...
... named Karfa Taura , who , though a dealer in slaves , was a man of kind and humane disposition . Park found him reading an Arabic book to several persons . Karfa asked Park if he understood Arabic , and on being answered in the negative ...
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... named Nealee , will be sufficient to show you how much misery is sometimes experienced during these journeys , now , happily , less fre- quent than when Park travelled , but still , alas ! too common . " Five days after they started ...
... named Nealee , will be sufficient to show you how much misery is sometimes experienced during these journeys , now , happily , less fre- quent than when Park travelled , but still , alas ! too common . " Five days after they started ...
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... named Naym , who waylaid and plun- dered the caravans , he had no opportunity of doing so till the following spring , when he heard of a caravan about to set off . He hastened to join it ; and , to prevent exciting the suspicion pany of ...
... named Naym , who waylaid and plun- dered the caravans , he had no opportunity of doing so till the following spring , when he heard of a caravan about to set off . He hastened to join it ; and , to prevent exciting the suspicion pany of ...
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accompanied adventures Africa afterwards Aleppo Ali's Arabs arrived attack attempt attendants Bambarra bashaw Bedouins began begged Bhoo Khaloom Bornou boys bridle Burckhardt Cairo camels camp caravan carried chief Clapperton companions dangers Davidson delighted desert difficulty distance Eight Engravings England escape expedition exposed eyes farther fatigue Fellatahs friends Gambia hope horse hundred inhabitants Irkutsk Jarra JOHN DAVIDSON JOHN LEDYARD journey Kaarta kafila Karfa king kingdom Kooma Kouka LAKE TCHAD length Major Denham Mandara Mandingo manner miles Moors Mourzuk MUNGO PARK musket natives Nealee nearly negro Niger night obliged palm wine Park's party passed perilous perish person plunder present proceed proceeded reached received remained resolved river rode round route Sackatoo sail sand savage says Park season sheikh slaves soon sufferings sultan Syria thirst tion told took town traveller tree tribe Tripoli UNCLE THOMAS TELLS vessel village voyage Wadnoon waiting wandering Yakutsk
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Seite 22 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Seite 73 - 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.
Seite 22 - Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Seite 65 - 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.
Seite 72 - Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season — naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection, and I confess that my spirits began to fail me.
Seite 22 - I have known both hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman ; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose.
Seite 72 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend.
Seite 22 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Seite 65 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed toward a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had...
Seite 55 - With this view I put the bridle on my horse, and driving him before me, went slowly along for about an hour, when I perceived some lightning from the north-east, a most delightful sight, for it promised rain.