The Tales of Peter Parley about AfricaThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1852 |
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Algiers animals Antelopes arrived Barbary Bashaw of Tripoli boat Bornou brave Caffrees Caillié called camels Cape Blanco Cape Colony Cape Town Cape Verd Captain Clapperton Captain Riley caravan Central Africa CHAPTER Christians city of Morocco coast of Africa Commodore Preble companions corsair cruel Decatur Derne Describe desert dreadful Eaton Eaton's expedition elephants Europe Foulahs Gibraltar Hamet Bashaw heard Hope horse Hottentots hundred miles islands Jenné Joseph Bashaw land length Lion live Lower Egypt Mahometans Major Denham Mandingoes Mediterranean sea Moors Morocco Mount Etna mountain Mungo Mungo Park nearly negro night Nile noise Nubia ocean Park PARLEY TELLS pass Philadelphia prison remained returned river river Gambia river Senegal Sackatoo sail sand ship shore slaves soldiers soon spear storm story straits of Gibraltar streets taken thousand years ago Timbuctoo tion told took travellers tribes of Arabs Tripolitans Tunis voyage wild wind
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Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 103 - The mocking birds so gentle that they would scarcely move out of the way.") He looked with care; great abundance had ceased to startle him, and he could see things one by one. In Natchez they had told him of many strange and marvelous birds that were to be found here. Their descriptions had been exact, complete, and wildly varying, and he took them for inventions and believed...
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Page 41 - I have now told you of the four Barbary states. The climate is, on the whole, delightful, and the land is in general very fertile. The most delicious fruits, the most fragrant and beautiful flowers, abound in this country. Nature has done everything to make...
Page 118 - ... favorable representations. Both Denham and Clapperton found the Negroes of Central Africa more intelligent, and more civilized, than the world had been led to believe them. The Caffrees and Hottentots are now known to be superior in every respect, to what their Dutch neighbours, used to say they were. There is in truth little reason to doubt, that for the purpose of providing some excuse, for the barbarous and cruel treatment of the Negroes, the Europeans have been accustomed to misrepresent...