| 1807 - 672 pages
...turned, nothing appeared bnt danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness; in the depth of the rainy season; naked and alone;...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 - 1799 - 200 pages
...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,...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 - 1799 - 520 pages
...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...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 - 1803 - 524 pages
...insignificant. " Whichever way I turned," says he, "1 saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season; 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
...turned, nothing appeared but danger and dfficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season; naked and alone...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 - 1809 - 234 pages
...his own words. " Whichever way I turned," says he, " 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 by men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances... | |
| Mungo Park - 1813 - 374 pages
...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 European settlement....recollection, and i confess, that my spirits began to Ml me. I considered my fate as certain, and that I had no alternative, but to lie down and perish.... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pages
...turned, nothing appeared but danr ger and difficulty. . I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness; in the depth of the rainy season ; naked and alone...fail me. I considered my fate as certain, and that 1 had no alternative but to lie down and perish The influence of religion, however, aided and supported... | |
| 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
...travels, " 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,...hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly... | |
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