 | 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...who has followed the traveler step by step : " I saw the long-sought, majestic Niger, glittering in the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward." In 1830. Richard and John Lander settled the question of the course and mouth of the river. The zeal... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...looking forward, 1 saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission, — the long sought for, majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as...at Westminster, and 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission, the long-sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as...at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks iu prayer to the... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 720
..."Here," he writes, "I saw with intlnite pleasure the great object (if my mission — the long-sought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and (lowing «lowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up... | |
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 776
...far from Segó, the capital of Bambarra, beheld "the great object of his mission, the long-sought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as...Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward." "The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and its collateral points, did not, however,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...Niger near Segó : ' I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission, the long sought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as...as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to ifie eastward, I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...African geography, for he there saw * the longs' tight majestic Niger, glittering to the morning Min. as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.' The extent of the city, ite crowded population, and the numerous canoes on the river, presented altogether... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...looking forward, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long-sought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as...at Westminster, and 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... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long-sought-for majestic Niger, glittering in the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and 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... | |
 | 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 784
...the great object of my mission — the long sought-for, majestic Niger, glittering in the morning's sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward." Or, again, of M'Douall Stewart, in Australia, starting from Adelaide, and reaching Van Diemen's Bay,... | |
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I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun,... 
