 | Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa - 1798 - 136 頁
...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 頁
...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...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 頁
...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...prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. ,..> * v •;;•• '' I. it 1») i /«..,.•' —«. *... | |
 | John Bigland - 1811 - 588 頁
...best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego contains, altogether, about 80,000 inhabitants. The view of this extensive city, the...a prospect of civilization and magnificence which L little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.f Sego is situated, as nearly as can be ascertained... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - 396 頁
...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 頁
...could make, 1 have reason to believe that Sego, about, perhaps, a thousand miles from the sea coast, contains altogether about thirty thousand inhabitants....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... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 頁
...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...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 頁
...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...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... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 328 頁
...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... 
