The Traveller in Africa: Containing Some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and Inhabitants of Such Parts of that Continent and Its Islands, as Have Been Most Explored by EuropeansDarton, Harvey, and Darton, 1814 - Всего страниц: 374 |
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... give you a tolera- bly correct idea of the interior of most of their dwellings . The best apartments being always placed behind , I was introduced into a stable , where I was detained till the women had time to get out of the way . I ...
... give you a tolera- bly correct idea of the interior of most of their dwellings . The best apartments being always placed behind , I was introduced into a stable , where I was detained till the women had time to get out of the way . I ...
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... gives the water such a disagree- able taste , that is hardly to be drunk by those unused to it . They have no other conveyance for men or goods but camels , mules , or asses , wheel carriages being never used . They are very regular in ...
... gives the water such a disagree- able taste , that is hardly to be drunk by those unused to it . They have no other conveyance for men or goods but camels , mules , or asses , wheel carriages being never used . They are very regular in ...
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... gives a peculiarity to the countenances of the female Moors , and is of the most remote anti- quity , like the rest of their fashions and habits , which never change . When a person dies , the corpse is carried to a mosque , and ...
... gives a peculiarity to the countenances of the female Moors , and is of the most remote anti- quity , like the rest of their fashions and habits , which never change . When a person dies , the corpse is carried to a mosque , and ...
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... give him such assistance as he might require . On our rejoining the caravan , at its evening encamp- ment , the Arab immediately sent by his slave , two pieces of dried camel's flesh , with a proper compli ment , requesting my ...
... give him such assistance as he might require . On our rejoining the caravan , at its evening encamp- ment , the Arab immediately sent by his slave , two pieces of dried camel's flesh , with a proper compli ment , requesting my ...
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... give you some account of its pre- sent state . The city stands on a kind of peninsula , situated between the two ports ; that on the east , without any apparent reason , called the New Port , is appropriated to Christian vessels . From ...
... give you some account of its pre- sent state . The city stands on a kind of peninsula , situated between the two ports ; that on the east , without any apparent reason , called the New Port , is appropriated to Christian vessels . From ...
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Стр. 150 - Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons imparadise the night ; A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air...
Стр. 150 - The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend; Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic...
Стр. 150 - Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Стр. 223 - It was in vain to think of flying ; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Стр. 150 - Touch'd by remembrance trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Стр. 341 - As soon as he had seated himself upon a mat by the threshold of his door, a young woman, his intended bride, brought a little water in a calabash, and kneeling down before him, desired him to wash his hands ; when he had done this, the girl, with a tear of joy sparkling in her eyes, drank the water, this being considered as the greatest proof she could possibly give him of her fidelity and attachment.
Стр. 332 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay, and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko (gold powder).
Стр. 150 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Стр. 224 - I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I...