 | Mungo Park, Isaaco (an African, Mungo Park's guide.) - Africa - 1815 - 406 pages
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Park's Travels, p. 194. f See APPENDIX. No. IV. expressed his general approbation of its contents,... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1815 - 404 pages
...flowing slowly to the eastward, I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all things for having thus fur crowned my endeavours with sue* cess." Park's Travels, p. 191. t See APPENDIX. No. IV. expressed... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 568 pages
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavonrs with success." Park's Travels, p. 291. of the most interesting that can easily be conceived.... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...the eastward. He hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, offered up his fervent thanks to the great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned his endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger flowing towards the east was not surprizing... | |
 | Arminianism - 1858 - 1194 pages
...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 Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." But, in his progress, our traveller had difficulties to encounter of no ordinary kind. Owing to rapids... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - Africa - 1828 - 314 pages
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." It must be ever an object of regret, that our traveller was not permitted to enter the city of Sego,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...flowing slowly to Iheemtnard. 1 hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." He had now indeed seen this mysterious stream, and ascertained the great fact of its flowing to the... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 430 pages
...brink, and, having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Vol.. III.— D Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success/' Sego, the capital of Bambarra, consisted of four distinct towns, two on the northern, and two on the... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1833 - 394 pages
...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 Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Mr. Park now saw before him Sego, the capital of the kingdom of Bambarra. It consisted of four separate... | |
 | H. B. - Africa, West - 1835 - 334 pages
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." For the fact of the Niger flowing eastward, though contrary to the belief which had for ages generally... | |
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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... 
