 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1840 - 262 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,' &c. Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 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 to bring him milk : no wife to grind his corn."* ^. * TThese simple anil pathetic sentiments, have... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1840 - 536 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...mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Cltorns. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he, &c. &c." Trifling as this recital may appear... | |
 | Simple lessons - 1841 - 102 pages
...they made on the subject of my visit. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words were these : — The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the poor white man that came and sat under our tree." The singing of this little song greatly... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 768 pages
...the youngest sang an improvised song, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. The words ran thus: — "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn," with a chorus "Let us pity the white man, no mother has he " (Ibi<L ip 296). No wonder in the circumstances... | |
 | Daniel Charles O'Connor - Pharmaceutical industry - 1913 - 522 pages
...plaintive: and the words, literally translated were these: "The winds roared and the rain fell, when the poor white man, faint and weary, came, and sat under our tree." THE PERIOD.—RULE I.—When a sentence is complete in itself, and is neither connected in construction... | |
 | Vaquero (pseud.) - West Indies - 1914 - 396 pages
...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.' " Troplc JATvlAT CA JBB WEST INDIES AND CENTRAL AMERICA h '-•* r Jj •ana I ,-,,ic°* Statute... | |
 | Blair Niles - Haiti - 1926 - 360 pages
...subject of their song whose air was sweetly plaintive. "The winds," they sang, "roar, and the rains fall. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife . . ." And so, Vastey argued,... | |
 | Blair Niles - Blacks - 1926 - 364 pages
...subject of their song whose air was sweetly plaintive. "The winds," they sang, "roar, and the rains fall. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife . . ." And so, Vastey argued,... | |
 | 606 pages
...ran thus : — " The winds roared, and the rain fell ; the poor Mango Park and the little Moss-Jhwer. white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our...no mother to bring him milk ; no •wife to grind him corn. Clmnis : Let us pity the •white man ; no mother has he." Upon bidding the old woman farewell... | |
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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. 
