 | Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa - 1798 - 136 páginas
...buildings, Moorish mosques are seen in every quarter. These objects, with the numerous boats on the river, a crowded population, and the cultivated state of the...a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which our traveller little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. From the best inquiries he could make,... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1799 - 520 páginas
...obtain a passage ; and sat down upon the bank of the river, to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extensive city ; the numerous canoes...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... | |
 | 1800 - 458 páginas
...down upon the bank of the river to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extenfive city ( the numerous canoes upon the river ; the crowded population, and the cultivated Hate of the furrounding country, formed altogether a profpeft of civilization and magnificence, which... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1807 - 412 páginas
...inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Lego contains altogether about thirty thousand inhabitants."—" The view of this extensive city,...a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little " Cultivation is carried on here on a very extensive scale ; and, as the natives themselves... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 páginas
...passage; and sat down upon the bank of the river, to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view pf this extensive city ; the numerous canoes upon the...a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. ,..> * v •;;•• '' I. it 1») i /«..,.•'... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - 396 páginas
...passage, I had an opportunity of contemplating with surprise this extensive city, the numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country. After a short stay I procured a guide, and, following an easterly direction, passed a large town, called... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 páginas
...Sego, about, perhaps, a thousand miles from the sea coast, contains altogether about thirty thousand inhabitants. The view of this extensive city, the...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... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 páginas
...obtain a passage; and sat down upon the bank of the river, to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extensive city ; the numerous canoes...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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 páginas
...he says, " we founds great number waiting for a passage ; — they looked at me with silent wonder. The view of this extensive city ; the numerous canoes...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... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 328 páginas
...North Latitude 14° 1O' and East Longitude 2° 26 , and about 3OO miles to the southward of Tombuctoo. The view of this extensive. city, the numerous canoes...a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which was not expected in the bosom of Africa. In Ludamar Mr. Park met with a shereef, who resided at Walet,... | |
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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... 
