 | 1857 - 924 Seiten
...parties, and among other enormities saw one hundred and seventy full grown men, who had been captured, " mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body."1 Besides careful descriptions of natural scenery and of men and manners, the author enters deeply,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 Seiten
...have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. On the 30th of December the army arrived... | |
 | Heinrich Barth - 1857 - 730 Seiten
...have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. Their forehead, instead of shelving backward,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 Seiten
...have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...cold blood, the greater part of them being allowed to hleett to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very... | |
 | Heinrich Barth - 1857 - 724 Seiten
...have taken one thousand, and [here were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater part of t hem being allowed to bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 Seiten
...to have taken a thousand, but there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy fullgrown men...to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. Their foreheads, instead of shelving backward,... | |
 | 1858 - 664 Seiten
...be from 500 to 1000 captives. To the great horror of Barth and Overweg not less than 170 full grown men " were mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood,...to death, a leg having been severed from the body." Three days after another village was attacked, and that which had " a few moments before been the abode... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1859 - 526 Seiten
...have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. Their forehead, instead of shelving backwards,... | |
 | 1860 - 402 Seiten
...were said to be a thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...to death, a leg having been severed from the body." On another occasion, he says : "The whole village, which, only a few moments before, had been the abode... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, David Livingstone - 1872 - 478 Seiten
...have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men...death, a leg having been severed from the body." The number of "slaves" (that is, free persons captured) on this expedition was about 4,000, of whom nearly... | |
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Bornu horsemen were killed, a great many more were brought in ; altogether they were said to have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were... 
