An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: Territories in the Interior of AfricaLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820 - 547 pagina's |
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An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: Territories in the Interior of Africa James Grey Jackson Volledige weergave - 1820 |
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: Territories in the Interior of Africa James Grey Jackson,Abd Salam Shabeeny Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2020 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abeed Account of Marocco Agadeer Alkaid Allah Amorites appear Arabic language army arrived Ashantee Atlas Atlas mountains Bahar bashaw Berebbers British buctoo called camels caravan Christian commerce consul corn Delemy Desert douar Draha east Egypt Emperor of Marocco encamped English Europe European fakeer favour gold Hejra horses Housa imperial inhabitants interior of Africa Jackson Jews John Bampton journey kabyl king Kulla L'Araich L'Hage land letter manufacture Mazagan Mequinas merchants miles Mogodor Moors morning mountains Muhamedans Muley Ismael muselmen natives Neel Negroes never Niger night Nile Nyctalopia o'clock observed pass person plague plains port prince produce province of Haha Rabat residence respecting river Sahara Santa Cruz Seedi Muhamed sent sheik Shelluhs Shereef ships signifies silk slaves Soliman South Barbary Sudan Sultan Suse Tafilelt Tangier tents Terodant Tetuan Timbuctoo tion town trade translation travelling Wangara West Barbary word
Populaire passages
Pagina xxi - The Journal of Science and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, published quarterly, Bd.
Pagina 175 - On my return to town in the evening, the beach, from the town-gate to the sanctuary of Seedi, * Mogodole was covered with biers. My daily observations convinced me that the epidemy was not caught by approach, unless that approach was accompanied by an inhaling of the breath, or by touching the infected person...
Pagina 208 - And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Pagina 8 - ... grow upon the top only : so that one of these trees appears, at a distance, like the mast and round top of a ship. Shabeeny has seen trees in England much taller than these: within the forest the trees are smaller than on its skirts. There are no trees resembling these in the Emperor of Marocco's dominions. They are of such a size that the largest cannot be girded by two men. They bear a kind of berry about the size of a walnut, in clusters consisting of from ten to twenty berries. Shabeeny cannot...
Pagina 450 - Allah houakibar!' three times, which is, as I understand it, 'God, have mercy on me!' The Arab was at the farthest end of the room: at that instant the cage was opened, and a serpent crept out slowly; he was about four feet long, and eight inches in circumference; his colours were the most beautiful in nature - being bright, and variegated with a deep yellow, a purple, a cream colour, black and brown spotted, &c. As soon as he saw the Arab in the room, his eyes, which were small, and green, kindled...
Pagina 408 - Christians (N'sarrah) and the Sultan of Eeauree called aloud to them to come out of the vessel, but they would not. They proceeded to the country of Busa, which is greater than that of the Sultan of Eeauree, and as they were sitting in the vessel, they hung or were stopped, by the Cape or Head Land of Kude. And the people of the Sultan of Busa called to them, and poured their arms into the vessel, and the vessel reached...
Pagina 502 - Jewes there resident, were to our men in certaine round sum'es indebted, the Emperor's pleasure and co'mandment was, that they should without further excuse or delay pay and discharge the same. And thus at length I was dismissed with great honour and speciall countenance, such as hath not ordinarily bene shewed to other Embassadors of the Christians. And touching the private affairs intreated upon betwixt her Ma'tie and the Emperour, I had letters from him to satisfie her Highnesse therein. So to...
Pagina 168 - Fas diminished in population twelve or fifteen hundred each day d , insomuch, that in these extensive cities, the mortality was so great, that the living having not time to bury the dead, the bodies were deposited or thrown altogether into large holes, which, when nearly full, were covered over with earth.
Pagina 474 - Mr. Beaufoy's Moor says, that below Ghinea is the sea into which the river of Timbuctoo discharges itself." This might have been understood to signify the sea of Sudan, if the Moor had not said below Ghinea, (by which is meant Genowa, or as we call it Guinea,) which implies, that the Neel El...
Pagina 452 - ... not support himself standing, so his comrade laid him on the ground by a wall, where he sunk into a sleep. This exhibition lasted for about a quarter of an hour from the time the serpents were let loose until they were called off, and it was more than an hour from that time before he could speak. I thought I could discover that the poisonous fangs had been pulled out of these formidable serpents...