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Algiers animals Antelopes Arabs arrived Barbary Bashaw of Tripoli boat Caffrees Caillié called camels Cape Blanco Cape Colony Cape Town Cape Verd Captain Clapperton Captain Riley Captain Riley's adventures caravan Central Africa CHAPTER Christians coast of Africa Commodore Preble corsair cruel Decatur Derne Describe desert dreadful Eaton Eaton's expedition elephants Europe feet fell Fezzan Foulahs Gibraltar Hamet Bashaw heard Hope horse Hottentots hundred miles inhabitants islands ivory Jenné Joseph Bashaw land length Liberia Lion live Lower Egypt Mahometans Major Denham Mandingoes Mediterranean sea Moors Morocco Mount Etna mountain Mungo Park nearly negro night Nile Nubia Park PARLEY TELLS Philadelphia prison river river Gambia river Senegal sail sand ship shore Sierra Leone slaves soldiers soon spear storm story straits of Gibraltar taken thousand years ago Timbuctoo tion told took travellers tribes of Arabs Tripoli Tripolitans Tunis voyage western coast wild wind
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Page 136 - Jenne" is full of bustle and animation ; every day numerous caravans of merchants are arriving and departing with all kinds of useful productions. In...
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Page 102 - 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...
Page 122 - 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 their character.
Page 136 - It is about two miles and a half in circumference, and is surrounded by a very ill constructed wall of earth, about ten feet high.
Page 39 - 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...