 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 頁
...waiting for a passage ; — they looked at me with silent wonder. 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. While waiting for a passage, the king having been informed that a white man was coming to see him,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 328 頁
...Longitude 2° 26 , and about 3OO miles to the southward of Tombuctoo. The view of this extensive. city, the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...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,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 342 頁
...Longitude 2° 26 , and about 3OO miles to the southward of Tombuctoo. The view of this extensive city, <he numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the sur-- rounding country ; formed altogether, a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which was... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1821 - 602 頁
...bank of the river, to wait for a more favourable opportunity. The extensive city, the numerous boats upon the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed a picture of civilization and magnificence that would have astonished a traveller less acquainted with... | |
 | American Colonization Society - 1824 - 862 頁
...great number for a passage ; they looked at me with silent wonder. The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population,...state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospeel of civilization aud magnificence, which 1 little expected lo 6nd in the bosom of Africa.'... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1833 - 262 頁
...number waiting for a passage ; they looked at me with silent wonder. 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." " The public discussions in Africa, called palavers, exhibit a fluent and natural oratory, often accompanied... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1833 - 394 頁
...quarter. The place was estimated to contain about thirty thousand inhabitants. The numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, presented altogether an appearance of civilization and magnificence little expected in the bosom of... | |
 | 1834 - 402 頁
...great number for a passage ; they looked at me with silent wonder. The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population,...civilization and magnificence, which I little expected lo find in the bosom of Africa.' A vast mass of information to the same effect with this, might be... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 352 頁
...extensive city, the numerous houses on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization...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 - 224 頁
...number waiting for a passage ; they looked at me with silent wonder. The view- of this extensive city ; the numerous canoes upon the river ; the crowded population,...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... | |
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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... 
