: The Great War As I Saw It by Scott Frederick George - World War 1914-1918 Canada World War I

@FreeBooksTue 06 Jun, 2023

Posted in: #FreeBooks #FreeBooksIndia #FreeBooksApp #gg

Vote Up Vote Down

MUNGO PARK.

Born 1771.--Died 1806.

Born at Fowlshiels, near Selkirk--Receives a respectable education--Bound apprentice to a surgeon--Finishes his education at Edinburgh--Removes to London--Becomes known to Sir Joseph Banks--Appointed surgeon to the Worcester, East Indiaman--Engaged by the African Association to ascertain the course of the Niger--Sails from England--Arrives at Jillifica--Unknown species of fish--Alligators--Hippopotami--Pisania--Dr. Laidley--Studies the Mandingo language--Attacked by fever and delirium--Horrors of the rainy season in Africa--Wild beasts--Departs from Pisania--Surrounded by a body of the natives--Visits the King of Woolli--Obtains a guide--Elephant-hunters--Presents his coat to the chief of Fatteconda--Major Houghton--Limited territories of the African kings--Suggestion by which Africa may be effectually explored--Folly of despatching a solitary traveller--A night journey--Solitary forest--Dangers from wild beasts--Hospitable Mohammedan--Festival in honour of his arrival--Negro dances--Joag--Robbed of half his merchandise--Humanity of a female slave--Kasson--Robbed a second time--Affectionate meeting between the blacksmith and his relations--Maternal affection--Curiosity excited by the presence of a white man--Kooniakary--Audience with the king--Advised to retrace his footsteps--Romantic scenery--Cheapness of provisions--Superstition of his Mohammedan guide--Terrifies two negro horsemen--Is mistaken for a demon--Kaarta--Buglehorns formed of elephants' teeth--Receives permission to depart--Jarra--Visits Ali the King of Ludamar--Despatches his journal to the Gambia--Is robbed--Barbarous treatment of Park by Ali and his Moorish countrymen--Placed in a hut with a wild boar--Is chosen royal barber--Pillaged of the remainder of his property--Superstitious curiosity--Is threatened with death or mutilation--Tortured for Moorish amusement--Robbed of his slave-boy--Affecting scene--Attempts to escape--Departs in the night--Stopped and robbed of his cloak--Nearly perishes from hunger and thirst--Storm in the desert--Multitude of frogs--Compelled to wander through the woods--Subsists on wild berries--Enters the kingdom of Bambarra--Mistaken for a Moor--Destitute condition--Comes within sight of the Niger--Joy at effecting the object of his mission--Sego--Refused entrance into the city--Humanity of a woman--Receives a present from the king of Bambarra--Sansanding--Hospitable reception--Is requested to write a saphie, or charm--Camelopard--Encounters a lion--Moodiboo--Loses his horse--Reaches Silla--Exhausted with fatigue and sickness--Unable to proceed--Resolves to return--Song--Denied entrance into the village--In danger of being devoured by lions--Stripped and robbed by a band of peasants--Overwhelmed with grief and terror--Derives consolation from religious reflections--Sibidooloo--Regains his horse and other property--Unites himself to a slave caravan--Obtains a common prayer-book--Arrives at Pisania--Returns to England--Singular interview with his brother-in-law--Received with distinguished honour by the African Association--Publishes his travels--Returns to Scotland--Marries--Practises as a surgeon at Peebles--Becomes disgusted with an obscure life--Appointed chief conductor of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, under the sanction of the British government--Sails from Portsmouth--Arrives at Pisanio--Sets out with the party for the interior--Dreadfully stung by a swarm of bees--The journey nearly put an end to by this event--Rainy season--The whole party sick--Gold-pits--Soldiers become delirious--Numbers die, or are left behind--Attacked by wild beasts--Cut off by the natives--Guide attacked and wounded by a crocodile--Remarkable presence of mind--Robbed by two African princes--Encounters three lions--Arrives on the banks of the Niger--Opens a bazaar--Death of Mr. Scott--Mission reduced to a very small number--Death of Mr. Anderson--Embarks on the Niger--Conclusion of his journal--Isaaco's account of his death--Captain Clapperton's corroboration--Character--Sir Walter Scott 13

PETER SIMON PALLAS.

Born 1741.--Died 1811.

CARSTEN NIEBUHR.

Born 1733.--Died 1815.

Born in the province of Friesland--Studies music--Intends practising as a land-surveyor--Celebrated Reiske--Engaged to accompany a scientific expedition into Arabia--Goes to Copenhagen--Appointed lieutenant of engineers--Liberality of the Danish Minister--Proceeds to Marseilles--White rainbow--Transit of Venus--Malta--Serpents--Maltese knights--Efforts to convert Niebuhr to Catholicism--Great Church of St. John--Prodigious wealth--Hospital--Sails to Smyrna--Tenedos--Attacked by dysentery--Proceeds to Constantinople--Assumes the oriental costume--Sails for Egypt--Rhodes--Turkish eating-house--Wine-drinkers--Female slaves--Amusing story--Plague--Egypt--Pompey's pillar--Turkish merchant and the telescope--Laughable anecdote--Mr. Forskaal stripped of his breeches--Rosetta--Arrives at Cairo--The river Nile--Pirates--Bruce the traveller--Curious anecdote of robbers--The Virgin on horseback--Churches strewed with crutches--Arrives at Damietta--Boats loaded with beehives--Europeans detested at Damietta--Encountered by a young she?kh--Visits the Pyramids--Observations on them--Sets out for Suez--Advantages of travelling on dromedaries--Trade of Suez--Rose of Jericho--Mountain of Inscriptions--Arab women--Is refused admission into the monastery of St. Catherine--Deserted by his guides--Ascends a portion of Mount Sinai--Voyage from Suez to Jidda--Black eunuch--Elim--Is protected by some Janizaries--Emerald mountains--Forskaal taken for a physician--Laughable story--Ship in danger of being set on fire--Indiscreet curiosity--Jidda--Custom-house extortions--Forbidden to approach the Mecca gate--Curious method of catching wild ducks--Sails for Loheia--Yemen--Bedouins--Politeness of the emir--Hospitable treatment--Curiosity of the Arabs--Dr. Cramer requested to prescribe for the emir's horse--Amusing anecdote of two young Arabs--Great coffee emporium of Beit el-Fakih--Description of the coffee plantations--Danger of travelling by day--Niebuhr is mistaken for an Arab--Is supposed to be searching for gold--Balm of Mecca--Is seized with illness--Mokha--Ludicrous anecdote--Death of Von Haven--Of Forskaal--Difficulty of obtaining a place of burial--Polite reception at Sana--Obtains an audience of the imam--Sails for India--Arrives at Bombay--Death of Baurenfeind--Forwards his manuscripts to Copenhagen--Sails for the Persian gulf--Phosphoric fires--Troop of dolphins--History of Nadir Shah--Sir W. Jones--Visits Shiraz--Superstition respecting manner of killing a fowl--Visits a Turkoman camp--Anecdote--Arrives at Shiraz--Hospitable reception by an Englishman--Palace--Persepolis--Arab she?kh--Dialogue with the moollah of a mosque respecting marriage--Ruins of Babylon--Proceeds with a Jewish caravan--Turkish firman--Devil worshippers--Cowardice of his companions--Adventure with an Arab she?kh--Dr. Patrick Russel--Oriental Christians--Visits Palestine--Mount Taurus--Baber Khan--Returns to Europe--Arrives at Copenhagen--Publishes his various works--Marries--Quits the capital--Appointed secretary of the district at Meldorf--Anecdotes and character of Niebuhr by his son--Illiberality towards Bruce--Account of Niebuhr's latter days--Illness--Death 99

CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER.

Born 1752.--Died 1817.

Incompleteness of the biography of celebrated men--Born at Paris of an illustrious family--His passion for the fine arts--Taste for literature--Falls in love--Marries--Adopts the profession of arms--Obtains the rank of colonel--Sails for Greece--His enthusiasm for antiquity--Visits the Grecian Isles--Occupies himself in drawing--Grotto of Antiparos--Opinions respecting its construction--Proceeds to Lemnos, Rhodes, &c.--Ruins of Telmissus--River Maeander, Ephesus, Smyrna, and Troy--Homer--Trojan territories--Rivers Simois and Scamander--Remarkable spots in the neighbourhood of Troy--Tombs of Ilus and Patroclus--Camp of the Greeks--Returns to France--Arranges the materials of his travels--Flattering reception--Patriotism--Modern Greeks--Elected member of the French Academy--Celebrated discourse on the death of D'Alembert--Delille's poem entitled "Imagination"--Extract applied to Choiseul-Gouffier--Appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Porte--Acquires the confidence of Halil Pasha, and of Prince Mauro Cordato--Attempts to introduce civilization among the Turks--Turkish ship-of-war--Obtains the release of the Russian ambassador--Prevents the imprisonment of the Austrian internuncio--Protects the Russian and Austrian prisoners--Revisits the Troad--Despatches artists to Syria and Egypt--Appointed ambassador to the court of London--Anecdote of the Count de Cobentzel--Emperor Paul of Russia--Returns to France--Rose harvest of Adrianople--Personal existence of Homer--Is seized with an apoplectic fit--Dies 154

JOHN LEWIS BURCKHARDT.

Free books android app tbrJar TBR JAR Read Free books online gutenberg

Login to post a comment!