 | 1807 - 672 Seiten
...amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared bnt danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness; in the depth of...men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 Seiten
...heart of Africa. " Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of...men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection, and I... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 524 Seiten
...many persons would appear extremely insignificant. " Whichever way I turned," says he, "1 saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of...naked and alone: surrounded by savage animals, and by Men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 Seiten
...amazement and terror. Which ever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and dfficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of...men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1809 - 234 Seiten
...an affecting manner, I shall quote his own words. " Whichever way I turned," says he, " I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of...naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and by men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1813 - 374 Seiten
...amazement and terror. Which ever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season ; naked and alone j surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. 1 was five hundred miles from the nearest... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 Seiten
...providence of God. " Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danr ger and difficulty. . I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness; in the depth of...men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 Seiten
...amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the depth of...men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 Seiten
...religion tranquillizing his heart at this awful moment, when he was in the midst of a vast wilderness, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage, and 500 miles from the nearest European settlement ; even at that moment he could view with delight... | |
 | 1843 - 684 Seiten
...says Mungo Park, in one of his travels, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of...men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary... | |
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I sat for some time, looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage... 
