| Mungo Park - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...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...broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly io the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...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 drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the... | |
| William Moister - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...forward, "I saw," says he, " 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, offered up my fervent thanks to the great Ruler... | |
| Jules Verne - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...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 praj^er to... | |
| Pictorial geographical reader - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long-soughtfor 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... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...tho 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. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to tho... | |
| 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...life. After reaching the banks of the long-sought-for Niger, and seen it, " with infinite pleasure, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames...Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward," he embarked upon its waters and sailed down as far as Boussa, thus marking, indeed, its continuous progress... | |
| D. M. Kelsey - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...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... | |
| William Henry Giles Kingston, Charles Rathbone Low - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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 east. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer... | |
| Robert Richardson - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...satisfaction and joy that may be imagined, 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 discoverer of the great river, with mingled emotions of elation and thankfulness, hurried forward... | |
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