Brookes's General Gazetteer Improved: Or, A New and Compendious Geographical Dictionary; Containing a Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities ... &c. in the Known World; with the Government, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the Inhabitants; the Extent, Boundaries, and Natural Productions of Each Country ... and the Various Events by which They Have Been Distinguished: Including a Detail of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market-towns, and Principal Villages, in Great Britain and Ireland: Together with a Succinct Account Of, at Least, One Thousand Cities, Towns, and Villages in the United States ... Illustrated by Eight Maps, Neatly Executed |
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Page 3 - from that of the Mandingoes chiefly in this, that they are more immediately under the influence of the Mahomedan laws ; for all the chief men (the king excepted) and a large majority of the inhabitants of Bondou, are Mussulmen, and the authority and laws of the Prophet, are every where looked upon
Page 31 - now doing, and excite their ferocity by the most provoking reproaches and threats. To display undaunted fortitude in such dreadful situations, is the noblest triumph of a warrior : to avoid the trial by a voluntary death, or to shrink under it, is deemed cowardly and infamous. If any one
Page 17 - herself in the fire with his corpse. Every woman, who thus burns herself, shall remain in paradise with her husband three crores and fifty lacks of years, by destiny. If she cannot burn, she must, in that case, preserve an inviolable chastity: if she remain always chaste, she goes to paradise
Page 30 - Their public conferences show them to be men of genius ; and they have. in a high degree, the talent of natural eloquence. They live dispersed in villages, either in the woods, or on the banks of rivers, where they have little plantations of Indian corn, and roots, not enough to
Page 24 - and in beauty of prospect, which it affords through a range of apartments, where a multitude of arches terminate in a. large window open to the country. In a gleam of sunshine, the variety of tints and lights thrown upon this enfilade are uncommonly rich.
Page 39 - altar. The Sclavonian ritual, contains a. particular benediction for the solemn union of two male or two female ; friends in the presence of the congregation. The male friends thus united are called Pobratimi, and the female
Page 10 - three feet from the surface of the marsh itself, though apparently founded much deeper in it. The diameter of this is something short of twelve feet; it is surrounded by a shallow trench, which collects the water, and voids it eastward ; it is firmly
Page 29 - baubles. Their ears are bored, and stretched by a thong down to their shoulders. They are wound round with wire to expand them, and adorned with silver pendants, rings, and bells, which they likewise wear in their noses. Some of them will have a large feather through the
Page 19 - are small. The men wear a piece of calico wrapt two or three times round their middle ; and the women wear them from their arm-pits down to their knees, but all other parts are bare. The men have two or three wives, and several concubines, according to their circumstances.
Page 42 - The interior part of the country is bounded by the lake Nicaragua, and fenced by mountains stretching to the West. In magnitude it exceeds Portugal ; is well watered by navigable rivers and lakes ; abounds in fish, game, and provisions of all sorts ; furnishes