 | Mungo Park, James Rennell - 1799 - 372 pages
...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 - 551 pages
...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
...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 - 852 pages
...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 - 94 pages
...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
...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 - 232 pages
...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
...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 - 216 pages
...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
...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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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... 
