Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schön and Mr. Samuel Crowther: Who, Accompanied the Expedition Up the Niger, in 1841, in Behalf of the Church Missionary SocietyHatchard and son, 1842 - 393 páginas |
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Página 34 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Página 35 - God, who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name ; We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee ; and grant, that those things, which we have faithfully asked according to thy will, may effectually be obtained, to the relief of our necessity, and to the setting forth of thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 129 - WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms.
Página ii - Trade; and, secondly, the admission for consumption in this country, on favourable terms, of goods the produce or manufacture of the territories subject to them.
Página 292 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Página viii - We knew no better hitherto, we thought it was so God's Will that Black people should be slaves to White people. White people first told us that we should sell slaves to them and we sold them, and White people are now telling us not to sell slaves and we will not sell them again. If White people give up buying. Black people will give up selling.
Página 385 - Son the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for his possession.
Página ii - ... secondly, the admission for consumption in this country, on favourable terms, of goods the produce or manufacture of the territories subject to them. Of those chiefs, the most considerable rule over the countries adjacent to the Niger and its great tributary streams. It is, therefore, proposed to despatch an expedition which would ascend that river by steam-boats, as far as the points at which it receives the confluence of some of the principal rivers falling into it from the eastward. At these,...
Página 381 - ... seasickness, which rendered the greater part of us less fit to take any food whatever. On the very same evening, we were surprised by two English men-of-war; and on the next morning found ourselves in the hands of new conquerors, whom we at first very much dreaded, they being armed with long swords. In the morning, being called up from the hold, we were astonished to find ourselves among two very large men-of-war and several other brigs. The men-of-war were His Majesty's ships Myrmidon...
Página 382 - We soon came to a conclusion of what had become of them, when we saw parts of a hog hanging, the skin of which was white — a thing we never saw before; for a hog was always roasted on fire, to clear it of the hair, in my country ; — and a number of cannon-shots were arranged along the deck. The former we supposed to be the flesh, and the latter the heads of the individuals who had been killed for meat.