Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, with an Account of a Subsquent Mission to that Country in 1805John Murray, 1816 - 852 pagina's |
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Africa afternoon Anderson appearance Arabic language arrived asses baft baggage Bambarra bars of amber beads bottle of powder brought bullock bundles calabash canoe caravan carried chief coast coffle crossed Damel departed distance Dooty dysentery eastward Europeans Faleme river farther fatigued feet fire five forward Foulah four miles Galam Gambia gave Giocha gold Goree grains of amber half past halted hill horse informed inhabitants Isaaco journey Kamalia Karfa king Lieutenant Martyn loads Lord Hobart Mandingo manner Mansa Mansong messenger morning Mungo Park musket natives negroes Niger night noon o'clock Park Park's passed person present procure provisions purchase rain reached received rice river river Gambia river Niger road Sabila Salou sand Sansanding Sego Senegal sent sheep sick slaves soldiers soon stopped stream tents thing tion Tombuctoo town traveller tree vicinity village whole woods
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Pagina 9 - 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.
Pagina 4 - Almighty to the superintendance and direction of subordinate spirits, over whom they suppose that certain magical ceremonies have great influence. A white fowl, suspended to the branch of a particular tree; a snake's head, or a few handfuls of fruit, are offerings which ignorance and superstition frequently present, to deprecate the wrath, or to conciliate the favour, of these tutelary agents.
Pagina 207 - You all know that the white people are a trading people; and that all the articles of value, which the Moors and the people of Jinnie bring to Sego, are made by us. If you speak of a good gun, who made it? the white people. If you speak of a good pistol or sword, or piece of scarlet or baft, or beads or gunpowder, who made them? the white people. We sell them to the Moors; the Moors bring them to Tombuctoo, where they sell them at a higher rate.
Pagina 53 - Damel coolly told the ambassador that he had no choice to make ; he neither chose to have his head shaved nor his throat cut ; and with this answer the ambassador was civilly dismissed. Abdulkader...
Pagina 46 - ... another step. As entreaties and threats were used in vain, the whip was at length applied: and after bearing patiently a few strokes, she started up, and walked with tolerable expedition for four or five hours longer, when she made an attempt to run away from the coffle, but was so very weak, that she fell down in the grass. Though she was unable to rise, the whip was a second time applied, but without effect...
Pagina 4 - It is remarkable, however, that, except on the appearance of a new moon, as before related, the Pagan natives do not think it necessary to offer up prayers and supplications to the Almighty. They represent the Deity, indeed, as the creator and preserver of all things ; but in general they consider him as a being so remote, and of so exalted a nature, that it is idle to imagine the feeble supplications of wretched mortals can reverse the decrees, and change the purposes of unerring Wisdom.
Pagina 9 - But in the interior countries, the greatest of all luxuries is salt. It would appear strange to a 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...
Pagina 116 - Stop throwing now, you see nothing in the canoe, and nobody but myself, therefore cease. Take me and the canoe, but don't kill me.
Pagina 11 - The furnace was a circular tower of clay, about ten feet high and three feet in diameter, surrounded in two places with withes, to prevent the clay from cracking and falling to pieces by the violence of the heat. Round the lower part, on a level with the ground (but not so low as the bottom of the furnace, which was somewhat concave), were made seven openings, into...
Pagina 109 - I sent for him ; he came immediately. I demanded of him a faithful account of what had happened to Mr. Park. On seeing me, and hearing me mention Mr. Park, he began to weep, and his first words were, they are all dead.