 | Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa - 1798 - 136 pages
...towns. The houses are built of clay, and have flat roofs ; but some of them have two stories, and many are white-washed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen in every quarter. These objects, with the numerous boats on the river, a crowded population, and the cultivated state... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1799 - 520 pages
...the houses are built of clay, of a square form, with ilat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings,...constantly resides at Sego See Korro ; he employs C cs a great many slaves in conveying people over the river, and the money they receive (though the... | |
 | William Wilberforce - Slave trade - 1807 - 412 pages
...in exchange for the Negro Slaves, which they obtain in their predatory excursions."—.(p. 150.) " From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Lego contains altogether about thirty thousand inhabitants."—" The view of this extensive city, the... | |
 | John Bigland - Geography - 1811 - 588 pages
...the houses are built of clay, of a square form, with flat roofs : some of them have two stories, and many of them are white-washed. Besides these buildings,...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages arc entirely unknown. From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego contains,... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...the houses are built of clay of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings,...are seen in every quarter, and the streets though narrowt are broard enough for every useful purpose, in a country where Vpheel carriages are entirely... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1815 - 596 pages
...well cultivated, and warm with inhabitants. Cultivation is carried on here on a very extensive scale. From the best inquiries I could make, I have reason to believe that Sego, about, perhaps, a thousand miles from the sea coast, contains altogether about thirty thousand inhabitants.... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...fiat roofs ; aome of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildmgs, Moorish mosques are seen in every quarter, and the...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are unknown. Sego contains about 30,000 inhabitants. While Mr. Park was waiting to cross the river, information... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 328 pages
...of a square form with flat roofs, some of them have two stories, and many of them are white washed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are unknown. From the best information that could be obtained, Sego contained about 3O,OOO inhabitants,... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 342 pages
...of a square form with flat roofs, some of them have two stories, and many of them are white washed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are unknown. From the best information that could be obtained, Sego contained about 3O,OOO inhabitants,... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1825 - 188 pages
...a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them are two stories high, and many of them white washed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen...useful purpose, in a country where wheel carriages are unknown. Sego contains about 30,000 inhabitants. The king of Bambarra constantly resides here ; he... | |
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Korro, and Sego See Korro. They are all surrounded with high mud walls; the houses are built of clay, of a square form, with flat roofs ; some of them have two stories, and many of them are whitewashed. Besides these buildings, Moorish mosques are seen... 
