Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 61
clothed in rags, destitute. Thetropical winter, with its terrible wind and rain, hadnow set in. The rivers were overflowing their banksand inundating the land, swamps were rising into inlandseas, and the paths were deep in mire and in manyplaces totally impassable. But there was no alterna-tive. He… … Mungo Parks Perils 35 day up the Niger, and at night, for a like expenditure,was allowed to share a hut with a slave, who compas-sionately lent him a large cloth to cover him while heslept. It was almost invariably from the poor andneedy that the lonely white man received spontaneouskindness. When…
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