Volume 1

Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition to Africa / by Richard Lander, his faithful attendant and the only surviving member of the expedition ; with the subsequent adventures of the author.

  • Richard Lemon Lander
Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition to Africa / by Richard Lander, his faithful attendant and the only surviving member of the expedition ; with the subsequent adventures of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stance, sparks of noble resolution and greatness of soul are oftentimes observable in the natives : but the timidity of the African character is every where apparent. The eyes of the Gooberites, as well as those of the people of Borghoo, not un- frequently flash with a wild expression of fero- city, and their actions sometimes correspond with this indication of a barbarous nature, but it is not courage, and gradually fades at the ap- proach of real danger. The people rarely make an attack on each other, or on a common enemy, excepting when they have a decided. superiority of numbers, or are placed under circumstances peculiarly favourable to their operations; and even when this is the case, they are more mind- . ful of individual safety than the general welfare, trusting rather to their heels than their arms to make good their retreat, if the least danger threatens them. ‘They have no tradition of a chief amongst them that possessed, when living, a calm, unshrinking, persevering spirit; their greatest leaders now (as in former years) bzing all of one stamp, revengeful and passionate in war, and if not successful on the first onset, like
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