 ... (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...  Annual Register - Seite 418herausgegeben von - 1801Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Bingley - 1864 - 194 Seiten
...the Thames at Westminster. He hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, he lifted up his fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned his labours with success ! "It is now more than time to stop, boys. I fear I have kept you too long... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1866
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to ifie eastward, I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.' Thus, the first step ivas gained in the solution of a most difficult problem, deemed by his... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.' Having thus been successful in reaching the banks of the longsought Niger, Park would have... | |
 | Samuel Mossman - 1870 - 314 Seiten
...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...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Then with buoyant hopes he proceeded to the great city of Sego, built on both sides of the... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1870
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. " Benowm, a principal caravan station on the route from Senegal to Timbuctu. Yarra: here Major... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1872 - 1146 Seiten
...as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to tho brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.' Being forbidden to cross the river, and regarded with fear and astonishment by tho natives,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.' Having thus been successful in reaching the banks of the longsought Niger, Park would have... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1874 - 536 Seiten
...flowing slowly to the east. He hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, offered up his fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned his endeavours with success. Sego, the capital of Bambarra — at which he had now arrived — consists,... | |
 | English explorers - 1875 - 660 Seiten
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly ta the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and its collateral points, did not,... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 624 Seiten
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.' This great traveller met on his journeyings with many striking adventures. Once, when suffering... | |
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