| Mungo Park - Africa - 1799 - 524 pages
...prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. , ; . I waited more than two hours, without having an opportunity...the people who had crossed, carried information to Mansong the King, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was coming to see him. He immediately... | |
| Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...expected to find in the bosom of Africa. ,..> * v •;;•• '' I. it 1») i /«..,.•' —«. * ' »*'* I waited more than two hours without having an opportunity...river; during which time the people who had crossed, parried information to Mansong the King, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was coming... | |
| Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...expected to find in th«tfosbiri of Afi'iciu . I waited more than two hours without having an oppovtur.ity of crossing the river; during which time the people who had crossed, carried information to Mansong the king, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was commg to sec him. He immediately... | |
| Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. I waited more than two hours without having an opportunity...the people who had crossed, carried information to Marisong the King, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was coming to see him. He immediately... | |
| Adventure and adventurers - 1827 - 226 pages
...the river carried information to Mansong, the king, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was coming to see him. He immediately sent over one of his chief men, who informed him that the king could not possibly see him until he knew what had brought him into his country ;... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1840 - 536 pages
...dancing. * The following is from Park's Travels. — "I waited more than two hours, without having en opportunity of crossing the river ; during which time,...the people who had crossed, carried information to Mansong, the king, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was coining to sec him. He immediately... | |
| Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1840 - 262 pages
...which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." While Park was waiting to cross the river, the people who had crossed carried information to the king that a white man was waiting for a passage, and coming to see him. One of the chief men was directly sent over to tell our... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Africa - 1844 - 352 pages
...prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. " I waited more than two hours without having an opportunity...the people, who had crossed, carried information to Mansong, the king, that a white man was waiting for a passage, and was coming to see him. He immediately... | |
| Wilson Armistead - Literary Collections - 1848 - 654 pages
...the town in which the king resides. The people who crossed the river, carried information to Mansong the king, that a White man was coming to see him. He immediately sent one of his chief men, who informed me that the king could not possibly see me, until he knew what had... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pages
...thus far crowned my endeavours with success. KINDNESS OF A WOMAN TO HIM, AND A SONG OVER HIS DISTRESS. I waited more than two hours without having an opportunity...the people who had crossed, carried information to Mansong the king, that a wlfite man was waiting for a passage, and was coming to see him. He immediately... | |
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