 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 640 էջ
...whitewashed, the streets are commodious, and mosques rise in every quarter. The numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, exhibit altogether a scene of civilisation and magnificence scarcely to be expected in the centre of... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 262 էջ
...num. 42478 ber of inhabitants he estimates at 30,000. " The view of this extensive city," he says, " the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." While Park was waiting to cross the river, the people... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1840 - 612 էջ
...on both sides of the Niger, and contains 30,000 inhabitants. At this place, the numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, exhibit altogether a scene of civilization and improvement scarcely to be expected in the centre of... | |
 | 1841 - 1042 էջ
...belonging to the king for conveying people over the river. 'The view of this extensive city,' says Park, 'the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.' As Sego is situated on a river, which is navigable... | |
 | 1841 - 524 էջ
...belonging to the king for conveying people over the river. 'The view of this extensive city,' says Park, 'the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.' As Sego is situated on a river, which is navigable... | |
 | 1841 - 524 էջ
...king for conveying people over the river. 'The view of this extensive city," says Park, 'the nuinurous canoes upon the river, the crowded population, and...cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed al together a prospect of civilization and magnificence which I little expected to End in the bosom... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 էջ
...two-story houses ; its mosques seen in every quarter ; the ferries conveying men and horses of the Niger ; the numerous canoes upon the river ; the crowded population...a prospect of civilization and magnificence which 1 3ittle expected to find in the bosom of Africa."* Toward the Atlantic extremity of the great equatorial... | |
 | Archibald Sinclair (of Mason's hall sch, Greenock.) - 1843 - 370 էջ
...is here 400 yards wide. The population is about 30,000. "The view of this extensive city," says Park "the numerous canoes upon the River, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of Rivers. Towns. The Quorra. the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and... | |
 | 1844 - 384 էջ
...quarter. The place was estimated to contain about thirty thousand inhabitants. The numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, presented altogether an appearance of civilization and magnificence little expected in the bosom of... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1845 - 748 էջ
...ferries conveying men and horses over the Niger. " The view of this extensive city," says Mr. Park, " the numerous canoes upon the river, the crowded population,...surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilisation and magnificence which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa." To the eastward,... | |
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The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom... 
