 | 1838 - 596 pages
...the countless treasures which they believed to be in his charge, his youthful spirit pined and sunk. The bright visions with which he had commenced his...support under every adversity, and for rescue from every difficulty, and when in addition he found that all hopes of return to his native land seemed if not... | |
 | James Prinsep - Asia - 1838 - 570 pages
...the countless treasures which they believed to be in his charge, his youthful spirit pined and sunk. The bright visions with which he had commenced his...support under every adversity, and for rescue from every difficulty, and when in addition he found that all hopes of return to his native land seemed if not... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - Afghanistan - 1843 - 444 pages
...the countless treasures which they believed to be in his charge, his youthful spirit pined and sunk. The bright visions with which he had commenced his...struck his guide, his own familiar friend, to whom he looked for support under every adversity, and for rescue from every difficulty, and when in addition... | |
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A stranger in a foreign land far from the soothing voice of countrymen or kinsfolk, surrounded by rude hordes who looked on him as the only obstacle to possessing themselves of the countless treasures which they believed to be in his charge, his youthful... 