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" I sat for some time looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichsoever 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... "
On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases - Page 61
by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward - 1842 - 95 pages
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Animal Biography, Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 1

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...
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Variety, Or, Selections and Essays: Consisting of Anecdotes, Curious Facts ...

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...
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed ... in ... 1795, 1796 ...

Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...it. After they 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....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...
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A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Volume 2

George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...quoted, is too much to my purpose to be here omitted. " Whichever way I turned," says the traveller, " 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 500 miles from any European settlement. All these circumstances crowded...
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The Philosophy of Religion; Or, An Illustration of the Moral Laws of the ...

Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1828 - 478 pages
...touch that, or any other article, he would immediately shoot him dead on the spot. He was thus left in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, without food, and without the means of procuring it ; surrounded by savage animals, and by men still...
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The American Baptist Magazine, Volume 12

Baptists - 1832 - 418 pages
...if they perfectly corresponded in meaning." ANECDOTE FROM PARK'S FIRST JOURNEY IN AFRICA. " Whatever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself iu the midst of a vast wilderness ; in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by...
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The Philosophy of Religion: Or an Illustration of the Moral Laws of the Universe

Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1833 - 404 pages
...touch that, or any other article, he would immediately shoot him dead on the spot He was thus left in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, without food, and without the means of procuring it ; surrounded by savage animals, and by men still...
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The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming ...

John Todd - Character - 1835 - 414 pages
...celebrated Mungo Park, describing his situation and feelings when alone 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 wilMungo Park. derness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals,...
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The Works of Thomas Dick, Volumes 1-4

Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...touch that, or any other article, he would immediately ehoot him dead on the spot. He was thus left in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, without food, and without the means of procuring it ; surrounded by savage animals, and by men still...
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The African Repository, Volume 13

African Americans - 1837 - 408 pages
...robbers. " After they were gone, I sat for some time looking around me with amazemeirt and terror. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the depth of the rainy iea* Reichard, a German Geographer, ought perhaps to be excepted. He adopted a modification of Park's...
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