Travels Of Richard And John Lander Into The Interior Of Africa For The Discovery Of The Course And Termination Of The Niger By Robert Huish
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Part Of The Roof Was
Swept Away, And The Rain Admitted Freely Upon Their Beds, Whence The
Most Awful Lightning
Flashes could be seen, making "darkness
visible." It appeared as if the genius of the storm were driving
through the
Murky clouds in his chariot of fire to awaken the
slumbering creation, and make them feel and acknowledge his power. It
was, indeed, a grand lesson to human pride, to contemplate the
terrors of a tornado through the trembling walls and roof of a gloomy
dilapidated hut in the interior of Africa. It is scenes like these,
which make the traveller think of his home, his friends, and his
fireside enjoyments, and by comparison, estimate the blessings which
are his portion in his native land. In civilized countries, when men
are visited by an awful calamity of this kind, the distinctions of
rank are levelled, and numbers flock together, for the purpose of
keeping each other in countenance, and strengthening each other's
nerves; but here all was naked, gloomy, desolate.
They passed the night, as may be supposed, in a very uncomfortable
state. The roof of their dwelling had long been infested with a
multitude of rats and mice; and these vermin being dislodged from
their haunts, by the violence of the wind and rain, sought immediate
shelter between their bed-clothes; and to this very serious
inconvenience was added another still greater, viz. the company of
lizards, ants, mosquitoes, besides worms and centipedes, and other
crawling, creeping, and noxious things, which the tempest seemed to
renovate with life and motion.
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