Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger: With a Narrative of a Voyage Down that River to Its Termination, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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Page 56 - Above the awning we elevated a slender staff, on the top of which we fastened our national colours, the union flag, which was kindly given us by a gentleman on the coast, who was commandant of Anamaboo. When unfurled and waving in the wind, it looked extremely pretty, and it made our hearts glow with pride and enthusiasm, as we looked on this solitary little banner. We thought it would be of service to us also, if we made as gay an appearance as the king and his followers ; and accordingly I put...
Page 93 - Our people, who had never in all their lives been exposed in a canoe to such huge and formidable beasts, trembled with fear and apprehension, and absolutely wept aloud ; and their terror was not a little increased by the dreadful peals of thunder which rattled over their heads, and by the awful darkness which prevailed, broken at intervals by flashes of lightning, whose powerful glare was truly awful.
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Page 96 - We lay in our canoe drenched with rain, and our little vessel was filling so fast, that two people were obliged to be constantly baling out the water to keep her afloat. The water- elephants, as the natives term the hippopotami, frequently came snorting near us, but fortunately did not touch our canoe.
Page 202 - I should dwell so long on this subject, for it seems quite natural that every one, even the most thoughtless barbarian, would feel at least some slight emotion on being exiled from his native land and enslaved ; but so far is this from being the case, that Africans, generally speaking, betray the most perfect indifference on losing their liberty and being deprived of their relatives ; while love of country is seemingly as great a stranger to their breasts as social tenderness and domestic affection.
Page 56 - King, with such a suite and such a title, the greatest honour is expected to be paid, and we therefore shewed our respect by saluting him with a discharge from two or three muskets ; and by waiting patiently his return from the council-hut, wherein he stayed two whole hours, during which we were sitting in our canoes, exposed to a very hot sun, for we had removed them from under the tree by the side of his own. ' It was exactly mid-day when Suliken Rouah re-embarked in his princely canoe, and quitted...