 | 1807 - 672 pages
...some 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...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I confess that... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 pages
...when loft alone by those who had plundered him in the very heart of Africa. " Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection, and I confess that... | |
 | William Bingley - 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 - 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...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I confess that... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 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 - 1813 - 374 pages
...were gone 1 sat for some time, iooking around me with amazement and terror. Which ever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw...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
...and confidence on the good providence of God. " Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danr ger and difficulty. . I saw myself in the midst of a vast...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I confess that... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 pages
...were gone, I sat for some time looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I confess that... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 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
...be given, and thy water sure." " Whatever way I turned," says Mungo Park, in one of his travels, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a... | |
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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 animals, and men still more savage. 
