 | 1807 - 672 pages
...m« with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared bnt danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness; in the...naked and alone; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 pages
...in the very heart of Africa. " Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 pages
...me wrth amazement and terror. Which ever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and dfficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1813 - 372 pages
...me with amazement and terror. Which ever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season ; naked and alone j surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. 1 was five hundred miles from the nearest... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pages
...good providence of God. " Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danr ger and difficulty. . I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness; in the...naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 580 pages
...me with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the...naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | 1843 - 686 pages
...I turned," says Mungo Park, in one of his travels, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment,... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...turned,1" said this apparently, forlorn traveller, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest Euro-, pean settlement. All these... | |
 | George Johnston - 1829 - 638 pages
...quoted, is too much to my purpose to be here omitted. " Whichever way I turned," says the traveller, " I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...savage animals, and by men still more savage. I was 500 miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 pages
...touch that, or any other article, he would immediately shoot him dead on the spot. He was thus left in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, without food, and without the means of procuring it ; surrounded by savage animals, and by men still... | |
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I sat for some time, looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage... 
