 | 1813 - 594 pages
...our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind him corn. C/toriw. Let us pity the white man : no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind hi* com."« Trifling as these events may appeal1 to the reader, they * These simple and pathetic sentiments... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...tree. — He has no mother to bring him milk ; No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. Let us pity the while man ; No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn." " Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation, the circumstance... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - Africa - 1821 - 602 pages
...tree — he has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." Chorus. " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." I was so much affected by this simple strain, and unexpected kindness, that sleep was banished from... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - Africa - 1821 - 564 pages
...our tree—he has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn." Chorus. " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." I was so much affected by this simple strain, and unexpected kindness, that sleep was banished from... | |
 | African Americans - 1826 - 266 pages
...our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn." Chorus. " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn."* Trifling as these events may appear to the reader, they were to me affecting in the highest degree.... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1827 - 226 pages
...tree. He has no mother .to bring him milk : no wife to grind his corn. — Chorus. Let us pity the white man. No mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." This little incident, as you may suppose, greatly affected him. Hitherto alone and abandoned in the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers, English - 1831 - 182 pages
...our tree.— He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white man : no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.'* * These simple and pathetic sentiments, have been beautifully versified and expanded, by the Dutchess... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 pages
...under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Chants. Let us pity the white man : No mother has he to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn." [These simple and pathetick sentiments, have been very beautifully versified and expanded, by the Dutch/ess... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 pages
...the affecting episode in the African history of Mungo Park, when the compassionate negress sung — " No mother has he to bring him milk, No wife to grind his corn." We believe that Querns are found in this country, dating to many widely-separated epochs — Celtic,... | |
 | 1837 - 684 pages
...under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk. no wife to grind his corn." Park, vol. 1. p. 193. An English lady, — the Dutchess of Devonshire — has very well preserved the... | |
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The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. 
