On Horseback Through Nigeria: Or, Life and Travel in the Central SudanT.F. Unwin, 1911 - 312 頁 |
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amongst Argungu bank base Bauchi Benue Bornu British Budumas Bukuru Burmi camped canoes carriers Chad Chongwom cleared compounds crossed cultivated days of Barth Deba Habe distance Emir escarpment European faddama farmland farms flat-topped Fulani Fulani empire galadima Gongola granite grass Gulbin harmattan Hausa Hausaland headmen hills horses huts inhabitants Jebba journey Kaduna Kano Kanuri Katagum Katsina Keffi king Kontagora kopjes Kukawa Lake Chad Loko Lokoja margin miles morning Naraguta narrow Nassarawa native neighbouring Niger Nigeria night Ningi northern northward open bush open plain pagan parklike passed path led plateau Potiskum Protectorate reached rest-camp rest-house rising ground river road rocks rocky round sand sandstone sandy plains sariki scattered shady trees slopes Sokoto soon southern southward steamer steep stony stream stretches summit surface Tangalto thin and open town traders treeless tribes undulating valley village walls Wase wooded plains Yelwa Zaria
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第 67 頁 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
第 273 頁 - From us to you. I do not consent that any one from you should ever dwell with us. I will never agree with you. I will have nothing ever to do with you. Between us and you there are no dealings, except as between Mohammedans 218 and Unbelievers — War, as God Almighty has enjoined on us. There is no power or strength save in God on high. This with salutations.
第 62 頁 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat-- Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall we see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets-- Come hither, come hither, come hither!
第 51 頁 - True delight In the sight Of thy former lady's eye : And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be shown : Jack shall have Jill ; Nought shall go ill ; The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
第 60 頁 - GIVE to me the life I love, . Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river — There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.
第 211 頁 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
第 169 頁 - Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings; Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust, once dead by fate.
第 200 頁 - It was a beautiful morning, and I was delighted with the scene around. Clear and unbroken were the lines of the horizon, the swampy plain extending on our right towards the lake, and blending with it, so as to allow the mind that delights in wandering over distant regions a boundless expanse to rove in — an enjoyment not to be found in mountainous regions, be the mountains ever so distant. For " Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
第 256 頁 - ... forty feet thick at the base, and from thirty to fifty feet high. It was loopholed, and strengthened in front by a double ditch. Its thirteen gates had been lately rebuilt, and some of them were designed in a re-entrant angle, so that access to them was enfiladed by fire from the walls on either side, while the ditch was full of live thorns, and very deep. The fortifications were such that, had there been any determined resistance on the part of the defenders, the town might have stood an almost...
第 210 頁 - TAKE the world as it is 1 — there are good and bad in it, And good and bad will be from now to the end ; And they, who expect to make saints in a minute, Are in danger of marring more hearts than they '11 mend.