 | William Henry Giles Kingston - Africa - 1874 - 560 pages
...answered, to see the country and to give an account of its inhabitants, produce and appearance, as their sultan was desirous of knowing every part of the globe. His reply was that they were welcome, and whatever he could show them would give him pleasure. Huts had been built for... | |
 | Fergus Fleming - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 542 pages
...country merely, and to give an account of its inhabitants, produce and appearance,' Denham reassured him, 'as our sultan was desirous of knowing every part of the globe.' 47 Hesitantly, he proffered a letter of introduction from the Pasha of Tripoli. To their unbounded... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 648 pages
...read it, he inquired 'what was our object in coming?' We answered, ' to see the country merely, and to give an account of its inhabitants, produce, and appearance ; as our sultan ivas desirous of knowing every part of the globe.' His reply was, ' that we were welcome ! and whatever... | |
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that we were welcome! and whatever he could show us would give him pleasure : that he had ordered huts to be built for us in the town; and that we might then go, accompanied by one of his people, to see them; and that when we were recovered from the fatigue... 
