 | Fanny Louisa Dorothea Herbertson - Africa - 1902 - 308 pages
...and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger flowing towards the east and its collateral points did not, however,... | |
 | Margaret Bertha Synge - Europe - 1903 - 258 pages
...to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks to the great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." He was the first European to reach the Niger, and to tell the world that its course was " towards the... | |
 | Frank Deaville Walker - Africa - 1911 - 448 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."* The sight he saw around him amazed the dauntless traveller. The city of Sego had, he estimated, a population... | |
 | Jules Verne - 1911 - 394 pages
...and flowing 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 things for having thus far crowned my endeavors with success. " The fact of the Niger flowing towards the east did not, however, excite my... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 504 pages
...steadily to the eastward ; and 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 crowned my endeavours with success. The discoveries of Cook opened up Polynesia, and a multitude of... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 500 pages
...steadily to the eastward ; and 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 crowned my endeavours with success. The discoveries of Cook opened up Polynesia. and a multitude of... | |
 | Sir William M. N. Geary - History - 1965 - 326 pages
...the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted 11 153 up my personal thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavour with success.' Park had thus explored the Niger for about 250 miles of its course between... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 354 pages
...Niger, Park thanks his God: '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 endeavours with success.'27 Having reached it with him, the reader has become a mental traveller, only to discover... | |
 | History - 2013 - 249 pages
...to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks to the great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." He was the first European to reach the Niger, and to tell the world that its course was " towards the... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Reynolds - Adventure and adventurers - 1940 - 136 pages
...flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drunk the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the Great Ruler of all...having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." It was the first time that a European had reached the banks of that famous river; and he stood there... | |
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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... 
