...kafila of supposed plunderers.* Beyond, howeTer, a most gratifying and inspiring sight appeared, — the great lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in its strength, and seemingly within the distance of a mile. " My heart," says Major Denham, " hounded...

...hundred miles across the great sandy desert, and had the delight, on the 4th of Fehruary, 1823, to hehold the great lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun, to all appearance within a mile of the spot where they stood. They found this to he the north-west...

...and inspiring, that it would be difficult for language to convey an idea of its force and pleasure. The great Lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in its strength, appeared to be within a mile of the spot on which they stood. The hearts of the whole...

...interior of Africa by the way of Tripoli and Fezzan. These travellers, accompanied by William Hulmán, a shipwright from Malta, and escorted by Boo-Khaloom,...Bello, chief of the Fellatahs. During his absence, Denham was joined by Ensign Toóle, of the 80th regiment, who hud volunteered his services at Malta,...

...which Lari stood, they beheld a sight which had never till then been gazed upon by a European ; — " the great Lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in its strength." Major Denham hastened to gratify his eyes with the prospect of this greatest of the...

...Niger " as broad as the Thames at Westminster," and Denham and Clapperton were privileged to behold from a rising ground the " great lake Tchad, glowing...with the golden rays of the sun in his strength," yet the results of neither expedition were of much commercial advantage. The geographical history of...

...Desert, Denham and Clapperton reached the heart of northern Africa, beholding February 4, 1 823, " the great lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in his strength." The last-mentioned officer, by arriving, during a second expedition from the south, at a point before...

...journey across the desert in the beginning of February, 1823. At Lari, ten miles from the frontier, the great Lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in its strength, first met the eyes of the Europeans. Passing several negro villages, they came to the...

...journey across the desert in the beginning of February 1823. At Lari, ten miles from the frontier, the great Lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in its strength, first met the eyes of the Europeans. Passing several negro villages, they came to the...

...gratifying and inspiring that it would be difficult for language to convey an idea of its force or pleasure. The great Lake Tchad, glowing with the golden rays of the sun in its strength, appeared to be within a mile of the spot on which we stood. My heart bounded within me...