Travels and
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共 43 段- The earth hereabouts was filled with a peculiar kind of smal
- I left the town at about five o’clock, and feeling rather hu
- In the course of the night, the roar of a lion was heard clo
- Afterwards El Wákhshi brought me a loaf of sugar, that I mig
- We are therefore justified in placing Ibrahím Máji (the king
- Early the next morning we started with an enthusiastic impul
- In both audiences (as well that with the “ghaladíma” as with
- Yaálewa, Mármara, Ágadesáwa (a quarter belonging originally
- With regard to the precious metals, a small supply of silver
- Our first salutation was rather cold; but we soon became fri
- Having been thus freshly imbued with the restless impulse of
- Keeping steadily on, first over open pasture-grounds, then t
- This sad intelligence deeply affected me, as it involved not
- At an early hour we were again on the march, conducted a lit
- My two companions wanted to obtain here a guide for me, but
- I now proceed to inquire into the character of the first of
- These circumstances may be best explained by supposing that
- As an example of the risks which European travellers may inc
- My poor Kátsena nag, the present of the extraordinary govern
- Sheikh ʿOmár, with his whole court, left Kúkawa in the night
- Passing over fields planted with cotton and beans, but witho
- At four o’clock in the afternoon I left the “chínna ánumbe,”
- Our way led us through a populous and fertile country, first
- Being allowed to stray about at my leisure, I observed in on
- Suddenly the spirit of our little troop was roused; some nak
- When the range on our right terminated, our view extended ov
- After we had left the rich vegetation which surrounds the vi
- More interesting, however, to me than the visit of this wand
- The canoemen still delaying to come, I could not resist the
- It was an unfavourable circumstance that we arrived on a Fri
- Slavery exists on an immense scale in this country; and ther
- On leaving Sulléri in the morning, we took a different route
- We had plenty of good fare in the evening, the Bórnu titular
- [Footnote 141: In Bombay the greatest fall of rain has been
- 10th. Ungwa Limáng, a small village inhabited by the people
- Having given what little information I have been able to gat
- 3rd. Búllemi, a place inhabited by pagans in its inner circl
- 2nd. Bumgórgo (Mbúm Górgo), a village inhabited by the slave
- 13th. Máyo Kim, a considerable river running from east to we
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- | |signifying a “judge of life and |
- | |famines, which distressed the |
- | |considerable town of Bárruwa, |