 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1890 - 578 pages
...that rose two miles E. of us to a height of 4600 feet above the sea, Pisgah, — Mount Pisgah, — because, after 156 days of twilight in the primeval forest, we had first viewed the desired pasturelands of Equatoria. The men crowded up the slope eagerly with inquiring open-eyed looks, which,... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1890 - 594 pages
...that rose two miles E. of us to a height of 4600 feet above the sea, Pisgah, — Mount Pisgah, — because, after 156 days of twilight in the primeval forest, we had first viewed the desired pasturelands of Equatoria. The men crowded up the slope eagerly with inquiring open-eyed looks, which,... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1913 - 1090 pages
...that rose two miles E. of us to a height of 4600 feet above the sea, Pisgah, — Mount Pisgah, — because, after 156 days of twilight in the primeval forest, we had first viewed the desired pasturelands of Equatoria. 1887. possible that we are near the end of this forest hell ? * * They were... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1890 - 588 pages
...rose two miles E. of us to a height of 4600 feet above the sea, Pisgah,— Mount Pisgah,—because, after 156 days of twilight in the primeval forest, we had first viewed the desired pasturelands of Equatoria. The men crowded up the slope eagerly with inquiring open-eyed looks, which,... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 420 pages
...district.' This is believed to be an early Teutonic folk-etymology, probably an adaptation of Bisont-gane, derived from the Celtic name Bisontium. Pioneer River,...pasture lands. ' Pistoja in Tuscany was the Roman Pistaria, which became Pistola, and then Pistoia. A curious proof of the late date of the present name... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 422 pages
...-leap,' the name of a cataract on the Rio San Francisco. Pisgah, a peak in Equatorial Africa, 4600 feet above the sea, was so called by HM Stanley in...afforded by the word pistol, which is the Italian pistolete or pistola, which originally designated a small dagger made at Pistola. Pitea, a town in... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 pages
...height of 4,000 feet above the sea, Pisgah — Mount Pisgah — because, after one hundred and fifty-six days of twilight in the primeval forest, we had first viewed the desired pasture-lands of Equatoria. The men crowded up the slope eagerly, with inquiring, open-eyed looks,... | |
 | Roland Anthony Oliver - 1997 - 452 pages
...that rose two miles East of us to a height of 4600 feet above the sea, Pisgah—Mount Pisgah—because after 156 days of twilight in the primeval forest, we had first viewed the desired pasture lands of Equatoria. Stanley went on to tell of the reactions of his Zanzibari porters, who, "feverish with... | |
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This, then, was the long promised view and the long expected exit out of gloom ! Therefore I called the tall peak terminating the forested ridge, of which the spur whereon we stood was a part, and that rose two miles E. of us to a height of 4600 feet... 