Travels in Africa, Performed by Silvester Meinrad Xavier Golberry, in the Western Parts of that Vast Continent: Containing Various Important Discoveries with a Particular Account Of... the Internal Government, Both Civil and Military, of the Various Kingdoms and Nations; Together with an Account of the Discovery of Extensive Gold Mines, Band 1Jones and Bumford, 1808 |
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Seite 252 - Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share ! Here, where no springs in murmurs break away, Or...
Seite 253 - Or moss-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know Which plains more blest, or verdant vales, bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found ; And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day,
Seite 253 - What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger...
Seite 252 - And his light scrip contain'da scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand, To guard his shaded face from scorching sand. The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky, And not a tree and not an herb was nigh ; The beasts with pain their dusty way pursue, Shrill roar'd the winds, and dreary was the view ! With desp'rate sorrow wild, th...
Seite 253 - At that dead hour the silent asp shall creep, If aught of rest I find, upon my sleep ; Or some swoln serpent twist his scales around, And wake to anguish with a burning wound.
Seite 73 - Of the Senegambian nations, the Mandingoes are remarkable for their industry ; and, of all the inter-tropical races have shown the greatest energy of character. Their features are regular, their character generous and open, and their manners gentle. Their hair is of the kind termed completely woolly. The Fulahs, another Senegambian people, forge iron and silver, and work skilfully in leather and wood, and fabricate cloth. An intelligent French traveller describes them as fine men, robust and courageous,...
Seite 209 - ... years. They also possessed several other islands ; and, passing into Europe and Africa, subdued all Lybia as far as Egypt, and all Europe to Asia Minor. At length the island sunk under water; and for a long time afterwards the sea thereabouts was full of rocks and shelves.
Seite 326 - ... from ten o'clock in the morning till four in the afternoon. The...
Seite 32 - Alps, effects more surprising ; but in no part of the world, can there be found a scite at once so exquisite and delightful, as the bay of Sierra Leone.
Seite 72 - Their women are handsome and sprightly. The colour of their skin is a kind of reddish black ; their countenances are regular, and their hair is longer and not so woolly as that of the common Negroes ; their language is altogether different from that of the nations by whom they are surrounded — it is more elegant and sonorous.