 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1874 - 560 pàgines
...flowing slowly to the east. He hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, offered up his fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned his endeavours with success. Sego, the capital of Bambarra — at which he had now arrived — consists,... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pàgines
...glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water,...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.' This great traveller met on his journeyings with many striking adventures. Once, when suffering under... | |
 | English explorers - 1875 - 680 pàgines
...glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly ta the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water,...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and its collateral points, did not, however,... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1876 - 720 pàgines
...glittering in the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in ¡•rayer to the Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success."... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1876 - 818 pàgines
...as broad as tlia Thumes at Westminster. "I hastened," he remarks, " to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Kuler of all ihiugs, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." The events of this memorable... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1877 - 498 pàgines
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." The great discovery was made, the Niger had been seen by European eyes; it was now known to flow to... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1878 - 440 pàgines
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly io the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and its collateral points, did not, however,... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pàgines
...glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water,...lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Euler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the... | |
 | William Moister - 1879 - 442 pàgines
...the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, offered up my fervent thanks to the great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Park found Sego, the capital of Bambarra, to be a town containing about 30,000 inhabitants, and a place... | |
 | Jules Verne - 1880 - 696 pàgines
...glittering in the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in praj^er to the Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. "... | |
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I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission; the long sought for, majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the... 
