A Geographical Survey of Africa: Its Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, States, Populations, &c. with a Map of an Entirely New Construction, to which is Prefixed a Letter to Lord John Russell Regarding the Slave Trade and the Improvement of AfricaFellowes, 1840 - 303 頁 |
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African slave trade Agadez alluded amongst Arabs Ashantee Bagherme Bahr el Abiad banks Benin betwixt Bornou Boussa Bowditch branch Caillé called Cameroons canoes Cape capital caravan Clapperton coast of Africa considerable Coodonia Coomassie course crossed Cuba cultivated Dagomba Darfur Denham desert distance district Ditto ditto dry season Dupuis east eastward Edrisi extending fact feet Fezzan flow Gambia geographical miles Ghana Ghazelle Haoussa hills inhabitants interior Jinne Joliba junction Kanem Kano Kashna Kowara labour Lake Dibbie Lake Shad land Lander large river magnitude Mahommedan Mandingo mentioned mountains Mourzook native navigable nearly negroes Niger Nile northward Park passed population portion of Africa Ptolemy quarter regarding route runs Saccatoo says Sego Senegal Shadda Shary Sidi Hamed Sierra Leone situated Soudan sources southward stream Sultan Bello thence Timbuctoo town travelled tributaries Waday Wangara westward Yaoori Yeou Zaire
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第 13 頁 - I was suddenly awakened by a crashing under his feet, which startled me excessively. I found that my steed had, without any sensation of shame or alarm, stepped upon the perfect skeletons of two human beings, cracking their brittle bones under his feet, and, by one trip of his foot, separating a skull from the trunk, which rolled on like a ball before him. This event gave me a sensation which it took some time to remove.
第 83 頁 - 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 of Africa.
第 12 頁 - Round this spot were lying more than 100 skeletons, some of them with the skin still remaining attached to the bones — not even a little sand thrown over them. The Arabs laughed heartily at my expression of horror, and said, ' they were only blacks, — nam boo!' (damn their fathers) and began knocking about the limbs with the butt end of their firelocks, saying, ' This was a woman ! — This was a youngster ! ' and such like unfeeling expressions.
第 52 頁 - I cannot make war to catch slaves in the bush, like a thief. My ancestors never did so. But if I fight a king, and kill him when he is insolent, then certainly I must have his gold, and his slaves, and the people are mine too.
第 9 頁 - ... interminable expanse of sand and sky; a gloomy and barren void, where the eye finds no particular object to rest upon, and the mind is filled with painful apprehensions of perishing with thirst. " Surrounded by this dreary solitude, the traveller sees the dead bodies of birds, that the violence of the wind has brought from happier regions ; and as he ruminates on the fearful length of his remaining passage, listens with horror to the voice of the driving blast ; the only sound that interrupts...
第 55 頁 - ... the huge branches of the fetish-tree groaning beneath their burden of human flesh and bones, and sluggishly waving in consequence of the hasty retreat of the birds of prey — the intense and almost insufferable heat of a vertical sun — the intolerable odour of the corrupt corpses — the heaps of human heads, many of them apparently staring at me from hollows which had once sparkled with living eyes...
第 52 頁 - Badagry being a general mart for the sale of slaves to European merchants, it not unfrequently happens that the market is either overstocked with human beings, or no buyers are to be found; in which case the maintenance of the unhappy slaves devolves solely on the Government. The king then causes an examination to be made, when the sickly, as well as the old and infirm, are carefully selected and chained by themselves in one of the factories (five of which, containing upwards of one thousand slaves...
第 44 頁 - The nearest executioner snatched the sword from the others, the right hand of the victim was then lopped off, he was thrown down, and his head was sawed rather than cut off. It was cruelly prolonged, I will not say wilfully. Twelve more were dragged forward, but we forced our way through the crowd and retired to our quarters. Other sacrifices, principally female, were made in the bush where the body was buried. It is usual to " wet the grave " with the blood of a freeman of respectability.
第 11 頁 - ... the seats, and whirling us about like straws, threw one of us on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest lasted we remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of thirst, burned by the heat of the sand, and buffeted by the wind. We suffered nothing, however, from the sun,...
第 169 頁 - O mother ! do not sell your only daughter. I will take you in my arms when you are feeble, and carry you under the shade of trees. As a hen watches over her chicken, so will I watch over you, my dear mother.