 | Missions - 1807 - 672 pages
...time looking around m« with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared bnt danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast...and I confess that my spirits began to fail me. I considci-ed my fate as certain, and that 1 had no alternative but to lie down and perish. The influence... | |
 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...had plundered him 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...on my recollection, and I confess that my spirits hegan to fail me. I considered my fate as certain, and that I had no alternative but to lie down and... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1799 - 520 pages
...time, looking around 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...settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once oh my recollection ; and I confess that my spirits began to fail me. I considered my fate as certain,... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...subject, that to many persons would appear extremely insignificant. " Whichever way I turned," says he, "1 saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the...naked and alone: surrounded by savage animals, and by Men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...around 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...spirits began to fail me. I considered my fate as certa1n, and that I had no alternative, but to lie down and perish. The influence of religion, however,... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...describes in such an affecting manner, I shall quote his own words. " Whichever way I turned," says he, " I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in...naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and by men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...time, iooking around 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...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... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...religion tranquillizing his heart at this awful moment, when he was in the midst of a vast wilderness, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage, and 500 miles from the nearest European settlement ; even at that moment he could view with delight... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...sure." " Whatever way 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...hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1825 - 188 pages
...religion tranquillizing his heart at this awful moment, when he was in the midst of a vast wilderness — naked and alone — surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage, and five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement ; even at that moment he could view with... | |
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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 animals, and men still more savage. 
