The World Displayed; Or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations: In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several Vain Editors and Translators are Expunged, Every Relation is Made Concise and Plain, and the Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are Clearly and Distinctly Noted. Illustrated and Embellished with Variety of Maps and Prints by the Best Hands..J. Newbery, 1761 |
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Page 56 - Niger, without feeing the perfons they trade with, or without "having once broke through that original charter of commerce which from time immemorial has been fettled between them. The method is this : at a certain time of the year, in the winter, if I am not...
Page 34 - It appears to have been little more than a mile in circuit, and if we may be allowed to judge of its former grandeur by the remaining ruins, it will appear a place of importance, rather than of extent.
Page 67 - Bedoweens, as soon as the dough is kneaded, it is made into thin cakes, which are either immediately baked upon the coals, or else in a ta-jen, a shallow earthen vessel like a frying pan.
Page 13 - It is remarkable, that befides the ftrong fulphureous fteam«, the heat of the above fprings is fb great, as to boil a large piece of mutton very tender in a quarter of an hour, and that the rocky ground over which the water runs, is, for the fpace of an hundred feet, in a manner diflblved, or rather calcined by it.
Page 62 - Each family hath a particular portion of it walled in like a garden, where the bones of their ancestors have remained...
Page 17 - Crime the Moors and Arabs are either Impaled, hung up by the Neck over the Battlements of the City, or thrown upon Hooks fixed...
Page 56 - Moors place so many of their trinkets as they judge will be taken in exchange for them. If the Nigritians, the next morning, approve of the bargain, they take up the trinkets and leave the gold-dust, or else make some deduction from the latter.
Page 27 - Englifh conful at his audiences. This nation has always had the character of not imitating their neighbours in living at open war, or perpetual...
Page 33 - Zagwan, is a fmall flourifhing town of the fame name, famed for the dying of fcarlet caps, and the bleaching of linen ; great quantities of both being daily brought thither for that purpofe from all parts of the kingdom.