The Traveller in Africa: Containing Some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and Inhabitants of Such Parts of that Continent and Its Islands, as Have Been Most Explored by Europeans |
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... built of stone , which is a striking object at a consi- derable distance . The streets are narrow , dirty , and irregular , and many of the houses are uninhabited , and falling to decay . Those which are decent and re- spectable in ...
... built of stone , which is a striking object at a consi- derable distance . The streets are narrow , dirty , and irregular , and many of the houses are uninhabited , and falling to decay . Those which are decent and re- spectable in ...
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... built of hewn stone , covered with varnished tiles , of various colours . One of the apartments of this pa vilion is a spacious room , floored with blue and white chequered tiling : the cieling is covered with wood , curiously carved ...
... built of hewn stone , covered with varnished tiles , of various colours . One of the apartments of this pa vilion is a spacious room , floored with blue and white chequered tiling : the cieling is covered with wood , curiously carved ...
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... built of this material , which far excels the best brick work . As they have no pumps , and few springs , many of the lower classes gain a livelihood by bringing water in skins from the neighbouring rivers , and selling it to the ...
... built of this material , which far excels the best brick work . As they have no pumps , and few springs , many of the lower classes gain a livelihood by bringing water in skins from the neighbouring rivers , and selling it to the ...
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... built upon a plan very similar to that I described at Mo- rocco . The palace is guarded by several hundreds of black eunuchs , who are neatly dressed , and wear knives and scimetars , covered with wrought silver.— Very near the city ...
... built upon a plan very similar to that I described at Mo- rocco . The palace is guarded by several hundreds of black eunuchs , who are neatly dressed , and wear knives and scimetars , covered with wrought silver.— Very near the city ...
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... built . The inhabitants are all black , or of a dark tawny colour : they furnish recruits for the soldiers who guard the emperor's court . On renewing our journey , we set forward , in a north - easterly direction , and , having entered ...
... built . The inhabitants are all black , or of a dark tawny colour : they furnish recruits for the soldiers who guard the emperor's court . On renewing our journey , we set forward , in a north - easterly direction , and , having entered ...
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Page 150 - Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons imparadise the night ; A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air...
Page 150 - The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend; Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic...
Page 150 - Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Page 223 - It was in vain to think of flying ; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Page 150 - Touch'd by remembrance trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 341 - As soon as he had seated himself upon a mat by the threshold of his door, a young woman, his intended bride, brought a little water in a calabash, and kneeling down before him, desired him to wash his hands ; when he had done this, the girl, with a tear of joy sparkling in her eyes, drank the water, this being considered as the greatest proof she could possibly give him of her fidelity and attachment.
Page 332 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay, and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko (gold powder).
Page 150 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Page 224 - I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I...