 | Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...chorus. The air was sweet and plain" tive ; and the wo rds, literally translated, were these :—" The winds " roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...Chorus. Let us pity the white " man: no mother has he, &c. &c." Trifling as this recital may * appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. " The winds roared, ami " the rains fell :— The poor white man, faint and...Chorus. "• Let " us pity the white man ; no mother has he, See. &c." Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation, the circumstance... | |
 | 1813 - 594 pages
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these : " The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind him corn. C/toriw. Let us pity the white man : no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus : the words, literally translated, are these : " The winds roared, " and the rains fell ; the poor...under our tree. He has no mother to " bring him milk ; go wife to grind his corn." Chorus. " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he." BAMBOO, a. kind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...roared, and the rains fell.—The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our trce.—He has no mother to bring him milk ; no •wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white naan : no mother has he to brink him milk ; no wife to grind his corn,"* Trifling as these events may... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1815 - 596 pages
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: — 'The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...Chorus. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he, Sec. &c." Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated were these. — " The winds roared, and " the rains fell.— The poor...Chorus. Let us " pity the white man ; no mother has he, '« &c. &c."— Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...translated, are these : — " The winds roared, " and therains fell ; the poor white man, faintand weary, " came and sat under our tree. He has no mother...Chorus. " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he." BAMBOO, a kind of reed, that grows to the height and size of large trees. The trunk is hollow,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1816 - 236 pages
...and the words, literally translated, were these. 13. "' The winds roared and the rains fell.—The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Chants. Let us pity the white man : no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.'*... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 520 pages
...four horses, and several people " poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our " tree.—He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to " grind...Chorus. Let us pity the white man ; no " mother has he, &c. &c."—Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation, the... | |
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The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. 
