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" ... threw every thing they had in the canoe into the river, and kept firing ; but being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men,... "
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 20

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 pages
...the canoe overboard, being overpowered by numbers, and seeing no chance of getting the canoe past, he took hold of one of the white men and jumped into the river; Martyn did the same; and the whole were drowned in their attempt to escape by swimming. One...
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Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley

William Henry Giles Kingston - Africa - 1874 - 560 pages
...long time, till two of his slaves in the stern of the boat were killed. Finding no hopes of escape, Park took hold of one of the white men and jumped into the water, and Martyn did the same, hoping to reach the shore, but were drowned in the attempt. The only slave...
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The English explorers, comprising details of the more famous travels by ...

English explorers - 1875 - 680 pages
...the canoe overboard, being overpowered by numbers, and seeing no chance of getting the canoe past, he took hold of one of the white men, and jumped into the river. Martyn did the same ; and the whole were drowned in their attempt to escape by swimming. One...
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Great African Travellers: From Bruce and Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley

William Henry Giles Kingston, Charles Rathbone Low - Africa - 1890 - 548 pages
...long time, till two of his slaves in the stern of the boat were killed. Finding no hope of escape, Park took hold of one of the white men and jumped into the water, and Martyn did the same, hoping to reach the shore, but all were drowned in the attempt. The only slave...
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The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa

William Taylor - Africa - 1898 - 686 pages
...numbers, and unable to hold the canoe against the current. Seeing no possibility of escape in the boat, Park took hold of one of the white men and jumped into the river. Martyn did the same, but they were all drowned in the stream. The only slave that remained in...
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Annual Register, Volume 54

Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men and jumped into the water — Martin did the same, and they were drowned in the stream in attempting to escape. The only slave...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 13

1815 - 578 pages
...being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of...attempting to escape. The only slave remaining in the boat, seeingthe natives persist in throwing their weapons at the canoe without ceasing, stood up and said...
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A Kiss of Adventure

Catherine Palmer - Fiction - 2000 - 400 pages
...about that attack: 'They threw everything they had in the canoe into the river and kept firing. . . . Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men and jumped...were drowned in the stream in attempting to escape.'" "But how did Ahmadi Fatouma escape?" Tillie asked. "Good question." Graeme said. "There's another problem...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 4; Volume 22

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1815 - 676 pages
...being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping-, ' Mr. Park took hold...throwing weapons at the canoe without ceasing, stood up and said to them, " Stop throwing now, you see nothing in the canoe, and nobody but myself, therefore...
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 34

Art - 1812 - 730 pages
...probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of tlie white men, and jumped into the water. Martin did the same ; and they were drowned in the stream...seeing the natives persist in throwing weapons at ihe canoe, stood up and said to them, « Stop throwing, now you §ee nothing in the canoe, and nobody...
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