The Narrative Of Robert Adams

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230468181
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book A the Narrative of Robert Adams; a Sailor Who Was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1810, Was Detained Three Years in Slavery by The written by Robert Adams and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...of this part of Adams's Narrative. In the course of his examinations, almost every new inquirer eagerly questioned him respecting the Jolilxt; and he could not fail to observe, that, because he had been at Tombuctoo, he was expected, as a matter of course, either to have seen, or at least frequently to have heard of, this celebrated river. Adams, however, fairly admits that he knows nothing about it: and, notwithstanding the surprise of many of his examiners, he cannot be brought to acknowledge that he had heard the name even once mentioned at Tombuctoo. All that he does recollect is, that a river Joliba had been spoken of at Tudenny, where it was described as lying in the direction of Bambarra. Those who recollect Major Rennell's remarks respecting the Niger, in his "Geographical Illustrations," will not be much surprised that Adams should not hear of the "Joliba" from the natives of Tombuctoo. At that point of its course, the river is doubtless known by another name: and if the Joliba were spoken of at all, it would probably be accompanied (as Adams stales in the text) with some mention of Bambarra, which may be presumed to be the last country eastward in which the Niger retains its Mandingo name. Note 40, p. 57. Some of the words mentioned in this short specimen of the Negro language are Arabick; for instance, --killcb, a dog; feel, an e'cphant; dar, a house: also the names which he has given for "date" and " fig"; but the word carna, which he has prefixed to the latter, signifying " tree," is not Arabick. Whether Adams, in consequence of the short opporx tunity which he had of hearing the uage of the Negroes, and his subsequent long resiQi, .ice amongst the Arabs, has confounded the two languages in the above instances; or whether there...