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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 Gambia genus gneiss gold granite greywacke ground head Herodotus hills Hope horse Houssa immense inhabitants interior island Jenne journey Kaarta 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 scarcely seen Sego 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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 357 - How do the beasts groan ! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Seite 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...
Seite 263 - ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Seite 97 - ... 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.
Seite 263 - 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.
Seite 182 - ... of burnished gold and silver. The smoking fires on its banks, the sounding of horns, the beating of their gongs or drums, the braying of their brass and tin trumpets, the rude huts of grass or branches of trees rising as if by magic, every where the calls on the names of Mahomed, Abdo, Mustafa, &c., with the neighing of horses and the braying of asses, gave animation to the beautiful scenery of the lake, and its sloping green and woody banks.