 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1799 - 520 pages
...of a square form, with ilat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are entirely unknown. From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego contains... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are entirely unknown. From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego contains... | |
 | John Bigland - Geography - 1811 - 588 pages
...a square form, with flat roofs : some of them have two stories, and many of them are white-washed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages arc entirely unknown. From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego contains,... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen in every quarter, and the streets though narrowt are broard enough for every useful purpose, in a country where Vpheel carriages are entirely... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them have two stories,and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are entirely unknown. From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego contains... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...fiat roofs ; aome of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildmgs, Moorish mosques are seen in every quarter, and the...purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are unknown. Sego contains about 30,000 inhabitants. While Mr. Park was waiting to cross the river, information... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 342 pages
...suffering extreme hardships, Mr. Park reached this city, which appeared to consist of four distinct cowns, two on the northern bank of the Niger, and two on...southward of Tombuctoo. The view of this extensive city, <he numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the sur-- rounding... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1825 - 188 pages
...built of clay, of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them are two stories high, and many of them white washed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques...purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are unknown. Sego contains about 30,000 inhabitants. The king of Bambarra constantly resides here ; he employs many... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 1042 pages
...stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings there are many Moorish mosques, and the streets, though narrow, are broad enough for every useful purpose in a country where wheel-carnages are entirely unknown. Park thought that this town might contain altogether about 30,000... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pages
...stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings there are many Moorish mosques, and the streets, though narrow, are broad enough for every useful purpose in a country where wheel-carriages are entirely unknown. Park thought that this town might contain altogether about 30,000... | |
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They are all surrounded with high mud walls; the houses are built of clay, of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen in every quarter ; and the... 
