 | Mungo Park - 1860 - 434 頁
...the bank of the river, to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extensive city ; the numerous canoes upon the river ; the crowded population...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,... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 頁
...two-story houses; its mosques seen in every quarter; the ferries conveying men and horses over the Niger; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population;...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." (Ibid.) Toward the Atlantic extremity of the great equatorial mountain chain are found still other... | |
 | Samuel Mossman - 1870 - 344 頁
...upon the bank of the river to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extensive city, the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and magnificence which he little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. Meanwhile news... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1874 - 576 頁
...quarter, its ferries conveying men and horses over the Niger. "The view of this extensive city," he snys, "the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." Farther east ho found a large and flourishing town called Kaffa, situated in the midst of a country... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1874 - 590 頁
...city," he says, "the numerous canocs upon the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated slate of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." Farther cast ho found a large and flourishing town called Kaffa, situated in the midst of a country... | |
 | English explorers - 1875 - 680 頁
...the bank of the river to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extensive city — the numerous canoes upon the river — the crowded...surrounding country — formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. I waited more... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1876 - 416 頁
...that there were Moorish mosques in every quarter. ' The view of this extensive city,' he writes, ' the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.' 1 The Mandingoes,... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1878 - 440 頁
...upon the bank of the river to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The view of this extensive city, the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population...surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. I waited more... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 1148 頁
...culture. Speaking of Sego, the capital of Bambara, Mr. Park says : " The view of this extensive city, the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." See Park's Travels, chap. ii. t ter; and, from their being in the families of priests as well as of... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 1152 頁
...culture. Speaking of Sego, the capital nl llambara, Mr. Park says : " The view of this extensive city, the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom o( Africa," See Turk's Travels, chap. ii. Mr. Park also adds, that the population of this city, Sego,... | |
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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... 
