The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805J. Murray, 1815 - 373 sayfa |
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Anderson appears Arabic language arrived asses baft baggage Bambarra Barraloolo bars of amber beads bottle of powder bullock calabash canoe caravan carry Chief circumstances coast coffle Congo considerable Coral corn course cowries ditto Dooty East European articles expedition Faleme river fatigued four Fowlshiels Gambia gave Giocha gold half past halted hill horse interior of Africa Isaaco Journal journey Kamalia killed King King's Latitude letter Lieutenant Martyn loads Lord Camden Major Rennell Mandingo Mansong Memoir miles minkalli Modibinne morning Mungo Park musket natives Negroes Niger night noon o'clock observed opinion Park's Travels passed person present purchase rain reached reason respecting rice river river Congo River Gambia road rocks Sabila Sansanding scarlet Scott Sego Senegal sent shew sick Sir Joseph Banks Sir William Young Slave Trade slept soldiers stream thing told Tombuctoo town tree village voyage
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Sayfa 80 - 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.
Sayfa 29 - In a country divided into a thousand petty states, mostly independent and jealous of each other, where every freeman is accustomed to arms, and fond of military achievements, where the youth who has practised the bow and spear from his infancy, longs for nothing so much as an opportunity to display his valour, it is natural to imagine that wars frequently originate from very frivolous provocation.
Sayfa 168 - The rain had not commenced three minutes before many of the soldiers were affected with vomiting; others fell asleep, and seemed as if half intoxicated. I felt a strong inclination to sleep during the storm; and as soon as it was over I fell asleep on the wet ground, although I used every exertion to keep myself awake. The soldiers likewise fell asleep on the wet bundies.
Sayfa 34 - ... seem to have produced in him feelings of disgust and impatience, which he had perhaps rarely experienced in the deserts of Africa. His strong sense of the irksomeness of this way of life broke out from him upon many occasions; especially, when previously to his undertaking his second African mission, one of his nearest relations expostulated with him on the imprudence of again exposing himself to dangers which he had so very narrowly escaped, and perhaps even to new and still greater ones; he...
Sayfa 76 - 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.
Sayfa 328 - 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.
Sayfa 101 - I regretted much leaving this man ; he had naturally a cheerful disposition ; and he used often to beguile the watches of the night with the songs of our dear native land.
Sayfa 49 - 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.
Sayfa 82 - We have already embarked all our things, and shall sail the moment I have finished this letter. I do not intend to stop or land any where, till we reach the coast: which I suppose will be some time in the end of January We shall then embark in the first vessel for England. If we have to go round by the West Indies, the voyage will occupy three months longer; so that we expect to be in England on the first of May. The reason of our delay since we left the coast was the rainy season, which came on...
Sayfa 272 - ... stalls contain nothing but beads; others indigo in balls; others woodashes in balls; others Houssa and Jinnie cloth. I observed one stall with nothing but antimony in small bits; another with sulphur, and a third with copper and silver rings and bracelets. In the houses fronting the square is sold, scarlet, amber, silks from Morocco, and tobacco, which looks like Levant tobacco, and comes by way of Tombuctoo. Adjoining this is the salt market, part of which occupies one corner of the square.