...himself relates how I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission ; the long-sought-for, majestic Niger, glittering in the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing steadily to the eastward ; and I hastened to the brink, and haying drank of the water, lifted up my...

...himself relates how I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission ; the long-sought-for, majestic Niger, glittering in the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing steadily to the eastward ; and I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my...

...of having first, with European eyes, beheld the long sought for Niger, glittering in the morning's sun, " as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward." The premature graves of Clapperton, Lander, Duncan, and other gallant persevering men, have since been...

...D'Anville tried to convince him otherwise. In 1795 Mungo Park pushed inland from the Gambia to find the Niger 'glittering in the morning sun as broad as the...at Westminster and flowing slowly to the eastward'. It was a thrilling moment in the history of exploration : before him no one knew where the river began...

...reached Segu, where he saw 'with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission - the long-sought-for, majestic Niger glittering in the morning sun, as broad...Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.' Park returned to England and became famous, but his work was only half completed, for he had not traced...

...saw, on July 20, 1796, "with infinite pleasure ... the long sought for, majestic, Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing eastward," thereby correcting the geographical errors of centuries, needs no commemoration.*32 Park...

...however, reach the Niger after many vicissitudes and was rewarded by the sight of the river 'glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward'. 5 His second was sponsored by the government - to the tune of £60,000 - and saw him leading a band...

...however, reach the Niger after many vicissitudes and was rewarded by the sight of the river 'glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward'.5 His second was sponsored by the government - to the tune of £60,000 - and saw him leading...

...infinite pleasure the great object of my mission - the long-soughtfor, majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.' With this single observation, Mungo Park saw off 2000 years of error. It was one of the great geographical...

...infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward' Park italicized the last three words, but the direction of the river no longer surprised him, for although...