 The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom...  Exemplary and Instructive Biography: For the Study of Youth - Stran 121avtor: Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 334 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Mungo Park - 1799 - 524 strani
...population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. , ; . I waited more than two hours, without having an opportunity of crossing the river; during which... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 strani
...population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. ,..> * v •;;•• '' I. it 1») i /«..,.•' —«. * ' »*'* I waited more than two hours without... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 strani
...population and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa."— pp. 195, 196. " About eight o'clock we passed a large town called Kabba, situated in the midst of a... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 strani
...population and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. I waited more than two hours without having an opportunity of crossing the river; during which time... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 strani
...population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. While waiting for a passage, the king having been informed that a white man was coming to see him,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 430 strani
...population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." While he was thus waiting for a passage, the news was conveyed to Mansong that a white man was on the... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1833 - 262 strani
...population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." " The public discussions in Africa, called palavers, exhibit a fluent and natural oratory, often accompanied... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 352 strani
...crowded population, and the cultivated state of the country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." Speaking of an affecting interview between a poor blind negro widow and her son, he says, " From this... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1836 - 224 strani
...state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and mag. nificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." " The public discussions in Africa, called palavers, exhibit a fluent and natural oratory, often accompanied... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1837 - 418 strani
...population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." To the eastward he passed a large town called Kabba, situated, as he says, in the middle of a beautiful... | |
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