A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, Band 3Mackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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... supposed never to forgive an injury : they are even said to transmit their quarrels as deadly feuds to their posterity ; so that a son views it as incumbent upon him to revenge his deceased father's wrongs . If a man loses his life in ...
... supposed never to forgive an injury : they are even said to transmit their quarrels as deadly feuds to their posterity ; so that a son views it as incumbent upon him to revenge his deceased father's wrongs . If a man loses his life in ...
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... supposed , is unpleasing to African ladies , but they dare not refuse to appear when summoned ; and the ceremony commences with dancing and singing , which continues till midnight , when ' Mumbo siezes on the offender . The unfor ...
... supposed , is unpleasing to African ladies , but they dare not refuse to appear when summoned ; and the ceremony commences with dancing and singing , which continues till midnight , when ' Mumbo siezes on the offender . The unfor ...
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... supposed Mr. Park was in earnest , and ear- nestly entreated of him not to go to Maana , as a war was likely to break out between Kasson and Kajaaga ; and he should not only lose his property but be sold for a slave . Madiboo , the ...
... supposed Mr. Park was in earnest , and ear- nestly entreated of him not to go to Maana , as a war was likely to break out between Kasson and Kajaaga ; and he should not only lose his property but be sold for a slave . Madiboo , the ...
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... wild hog , who , in return for this attack , wounded the Moor's arm . The screams of the man alarmed the people in the king's tent , who supposed the white prisoner had escaped . Ali came up galloping THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA . 45.
... wild hog , who , in return for this attack , wounded the Moor's arm . The screams of the man alarmed the people in the king's tent , who supposed the white prisoner had escaped . Ali came up galloping THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA . 45.
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... supposed it to be a mischievous frolic , but was informed it was a nuptial bene- diction from the bride's own person ; and which is always re- ceived by the Moors as a most extraordinary favour . Such being the case , Mr. Park wiped his ...
... supposed it to be a mischievous frolic , but was informed it was a nuptial bene- diction from the bride's own person ; and which is always re- ceived by the Moors as a most extraordinary favour . Such being the case , Mr. Park wiped his ...
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Seite 199 - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Seite 356 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Seite 92 - With the assistance of one of the soldiers I have changed a large canoe into a tolerably good schooner, on board of which I this day hoisted the British flag, and shall set sail to the east with the fixed resolution to discover the termination of the Niger or perish in the attempt.
Seite 10 - ... the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Seite 92 - Mr. Anderson and likewise Mr. Scott are both dead ; but though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere ; and if I could not succeed in the object of my journey, I would at last die on the Niger.
Seite 56 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "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 10 - I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of...
Seite 8 - NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a 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 171 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move.
Seite 307 - Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.