...the Niger ; " and the view of this extensive capital," says our traveller, " the numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated...surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." The king; Mansong,...

...quarter, and femes conveying men and horses over the Niger. " The view of this extensive city," says Mr. Park, " the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." To the eastward he passed a large town called Kabba, situated, as he says, in the middle of a beautiful...

...whitewashed, the streets are commodious, and mosques rise in every quarter. The numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, exhibit altogether a scene of civilisation and magnificence scarcely to be expected in the centre of...

...whitewashed, the streets are commodious, and mosques rise in every quarter. The numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, exhibit altogether a scene of civilisation and magnificence scarcely to bft expected in the centre...

...great number of canoes are constantly plying on the river. " The view of this extensive city," says Mr. Park, " the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." And of the country between Sego and Sansanding, he states thus: — " About eight o'clock, we passed...

...num. 42478 ber of inhabitants he estimates at 30,000. " The view of this extensive city," he says, " the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." While Park was waiting to cross the river, the people who had crossed carried information to the king...

...on both sides of the Niger, and contains 30,000 inhabitants. At this place, the numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, exhibit altogether a scene of civilization and improvement scarcely to be expected in the centre of...

...streets, though narrow, are broad enough for every useful purpose in a country where wheel-carriages are entirely unknown. Park thought that this town...upwards and downwards, between countries of which one is rieh in gold and the other in salt, which latter is a great object of trade in the interior of Africa,...

...two-story houses ; its mosques seen in every quarter ; the ferries conveying men and horses of the Niger ; the numerous canoes upon the river ; the crowded population...a prospect of civilization and magnificence which 1 3ittle expected to find in the bosom of Africa."* Toward the Atlantic extremity of the great equatorial...

...parts, occupying both sides of the River, which is here 400 yards wide. The population is about 30,000. "The view of this extensive city," says Park "the...the crowded population, and the cultivated state of Rivers. Towns. The Quorra. the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and...