| Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa - 1798 - 136 páginas
...I " hastened (says Park,) to the brink of the river, and having drank " of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler " of all...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with suc" cess." — Unhappily, he had yet to sustain many severe and bitter trials of his patience and... | |
| 1799 - 614 páginas
...eastward.' — « I hastened to the brink,' says Mr. Park, ' and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success/ The city of Sego, the capital of Bambarra, consists of four distinct towns, two on the northern and... | |
| Mungo Park - 1799 - 520 páginas
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the Great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstances of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and its collateral points, did not, however,... | |
| 1799 - 730 páginas
...words : " I haHened," fays he, " to the brink of the river, and having drank the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great ruler of all...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with fucccfs." Then follows a dcfcription of the place, &c., alluded to above. The city of Sego connfts... | |
| 1799 - 618 páginas
...'eastward.' — « I hastened to the brink,' says Mr. Park, ' and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned ray endeavours with success.' The city of Sego, the capital of Bambarra, consists of four distinct... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 940 páginas
...eaftward.1 ' I hafiened to the brink/ fays Mr. Park, ' and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the great Ruler of all...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with fuereis.' The city of Segó, the capital of Bambnrra, conflits of four diftincl (own«, two on the... | |
| Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 páginas
...flowing slowly to the east'ward. I hastened to the 'brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the Great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the' east, and its collateral points, did not, however,... | |
| John Bigland - 1811 - 588 páginas
...the eastward. I hastened ,$p the brink, and having drunk of the water, offered up my fervent thanks to the great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." His description of Sego, .the capital of Bambara, is likewise so animated, as •well as so clear and... | |
| Mungo Park - 1813 - 374 páginas
...flowing slowly to the east-ward. I hastened to the brink, and havmg drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and iis collateral points, did not, however,... | |
| Mungo Park - 1815 - 336 páginas
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Park's Travels, p. 194. A short time after Mr. Park had delivered his Memoir at the Colonial office,... | |
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