Travels in the Interior of AfricaP. Hayes, 1825 - 180 σελίδες |
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Abdulkader African Ali's amber animal appeared asses attendants baggage Bambarra bank blacksmith Bondou bridle brought bullock bushes calabashes called canoe caravan cattle CHAP chief conduct corn cotton cloth Damel Demba Sego desired dress European fatigue fire Foulahs four Gambia gold grass ground-nuts hand head horse horsemen hyæna indigo plant informed inhabitants Isaaco Jarra Joag journey Kaarta Kamalia Karfa Kasson king kingdom Kooma Laidley lion lodgings Ludamar Mahometan Mandingo manner Mansa Mansong miles milk Moorish Moors morning MUNGO PARK musket natives negroes Niger night o'clock obliged Park arrived Park took Park's party pass Pisania prayers present proceeded reached received river river Gambia river Senegal rode round saddle salt Sansanding season sent Silla sitting slaves small village soldiers soon stop stranger tent tion told Tombuctoo town trade traveller tree wild hog women woods
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Σελίδα 155 - my spear is indeed red with the blood of your subjects killed in battle, and I could now give it a deeper stain by dipping it in your own ; but this would not build up my towns, nor bring to life the thousands who fell in the woods. I will not, therefore, kill you in cold blood, but I will retain you as my slave, until I perceive that your presence in your own kingdom will be no longer dangerous to your neighbours ; and then I will consider of the proper way of disposing of you.
Σελίδα 108 - 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.
Σελίδα 136 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Σελίδα 144 - European, to see a child suck a piece of rock-salt, as if it were sugar. This, however, I have frequently seen; although, in the inland parts, the poorer class of inhabitants are so very rarely indulged with this precious article, that to say a man eats salt with his victuals, is the same as saying, he is a rich man.
Σελίδα 128 - ... 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!
Σελίδα 178 - Park came there after the army had posted itself ; he nevertheless attempted to pass. The people began to attack him, throwing lances, pikes, arrows and stones. Mr. Park defended himself for a long time ; two of his slaves at the stern of the canoe were killed...
Σελίδα 177 - Boussa, near the river side — There is before this village a rock across the whole breadth of the river. One part of the rock is very high : there is a large opening in that rock in the form of a door, which is the only passage for the water to pass through ; the tide current is here very strong.
Σελίδα 42 - On my part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression of their noses; but they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) honey-mouth, was not esteemed in Bondou.
Σελίδα 175 - ... Scott, have both bid adieu to the things of this world; and the greater part of the soldiers have died on the march during the rainy season; but you may believe me, I am in good health. The rains are completely over, and the healthy season has commenced, so that there is no danger of sickness; and I have still a sufficient force to protect me from any insult in sailing down the river, to the sea. "We have already embarked all our things, and shall sail the moment I have finished this letter.
Σελίδα 105 - They were tied together by their necks with thongs of a bullock's hide, twisted like a rope ; seven slaves upon a thong, and a man with a musket between every seven.