...some time looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of...recollection, and I confess that my spirits began to fail me. (T, p. 225] The "influence of religion" saves Park from despair; the flora and fauna around him become...

...some time, looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichever way I turned nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of...by savage animals, and men still more savage. I was 500 miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection;...

...a moment of psychological despair his discovery of Africa's interior helps him rediscover himself: I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in...surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage. ... At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss, in fructification,...

...possessions, most of his clothes and his horse, the bandits left Park in a state of amazement and terror ... I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone ... I considered my fate as certain and that I had no alternative but to lie down and perish ... At...

...him of his clothes. After one brutal attack, when he had been robbed and left for dead, he lamented, 'I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in...by savage animals and men still more savage ... I had no alternative but to lie down and perish.'14 He did not perish, though, but restored his resolution...