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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...them African and American Barbary. They have both about the same distance of sea-coast--African Barbary being bounded on the north by the Mediterranean, on the west by the Atlantic; and American Barbary on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic. A reference to an atlas will prove to the reader that there are no two places on the globe of equal extent which present so many distinctive features of resemblance common to both. Mr Sumner, the celebrated American philanthropist, who first pointed out this remarkable resemblance, says, that 'perhaps the common peculiarities of climate breeding indolence, lassitude, and selfishness, may account for the insensibility to the claims of justice and humanity which seems to have characterised both regions.' JOURNEY FEOM THE GAMBIA TO THE BED SEA. AVING occasion to sojourn for a time on the western coast of Africa, I was anxious to know-something of the people of the interior of that vast continent, concerning1 whom so many conflicting accounts have been given. This could not be accomplished at Sierra Leone. From the heterogenous mass of its colonists, who have been brought from more than thirty countries, a few interesting particulars can be obtained; but most of these liberated Africans were torn from their homes in early youth, and their vocabulary of negro-English is too limited to express all a curious person wishes to know of their native condition and manners. Sierra Leone itself has been very differently estimated by different 'individuals, according to the aspect in which they have viewed it, and the expectations they had formed regarding the people, or their own prospects in going among them. For myself, I am a No. 77. 1 great admirer of nature's beauties, and I love to dwell upon the good ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1154238709
- ISBN 13 9781154238709
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages122
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