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... remarkable Event . - Better Treatment of Women .-- More relig- ious Feeling . - Belief in a future State , and in the Existence of spiritual Beings . -Gardens . - Fish , Fruit , and Game . - Proceed to the Limits of the Barotse Country ...
... remarkable Event . - Better Treatment of Women .-- More relig- ious Feeling . - Belief in a future State , and in the Existence of spiritual Beings . -Gardens . - Fish , Fruit , and Game . - Proceed to the Limits of the Barotse Country ...
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... remarkable man has not only embraced Christianity , but expounds its doctrines to his people , I will here give a brief sketch of his career . His great - grandfather Mochoaséle was a great traveler , and the first that ever told the ...
... remarkable man has not only embraced Christianity , but expounds its doctrines to his people , I will here give a brief sketch of his career . His great - grandfather Mochoaséle was a great traveler , and the first that ever told the ...
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... remarkable that attempts have not been made to any extent to domesticate some of the noble and useful creatures of Africa in England . The eland , which is the most magnificent of all antelopes , would grace the parks of our nobility ...
... remarkable that attempts have not been made to any extent to domesticate some of the noble and useful creatures of Africa in England . The eland , which is the most magnificent of all antelopes , would grace the parks of our nobility ...
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... remarkable region is astonishing , even to those who are familiar with India . It usually rises in tufts with bare spaces between , or the intervals are occupied by creeping plants , which , having their roots buried far beneath the ...
... remarkable region is astonishing , even to those who are familiar with India . It usually rises in tufts with bare spaces between , or the intervals are occupied by creeping plants , which , having their roots buried far beneath the ...
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... remarkable that this lordly animal is so completely harassed by the presence of a few yelping curs as to be quite incapable of attending to man . He makes awkward attempts to crush them by falling on his knees ; and sometimes places his ...
... remarkable that this lordly animal is so completely harassed by the presence of a few yelping curs as to be quite incapable of attending to man . He makes awkward attempts to crush them by falling on his knees ; and sometimes places his ...
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Africa Angola animals antelopes appear attack Bakwains Balonda Bamangwato banks Barotse Bayeiye Bechuanas birds Boers buffalo Bushmen Caffres called canoes Cape cattle chief Chobe Christian colony color deep Desert elephants English feeling feet fever fire goats Golungo Alto grass Griquas guns head heard herds hippopotami hundred hunting huts idea inches insect ivory Kalahari Kalahari Desert killed Kolobeng Kuruman labor Lake Ngami leave Lechulatebe Leeambye Leeba Linyanti lion living Loanda Makalaka Makololo Mambari Masiko miles missionary Mpepe Naliele named natives never night observed ostrich Oswell oxen party passed plains plant poison Portuguese possession present rain remarkable river round Sebituane Sechele sechu seems seen Sekeletu Sesheke Shinte skin soon spot springbuck stream thing town trade trees tribes tsetse tufa valley vegetation village wagon whole women yards young Zambesi Zouga
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Seite 731 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of his Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 556 - European eyes ; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight. The only want felt is that of mountains in the background. The falls are bounded on...
Seite 557 - ... the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad, leaped down a hundred feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen or twenty yards. The entire falls are simply a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and then prolonged from the left bank away through thirty or forty miles of hills.
Seite 368 - It was rather trying for me, because I knew that the Chiboque would aim at the white man first ; but I was careful not to appear flurried, and, having four barrels ready for instant action, looked quietly at the savage scene around.
Seite 624 - All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations...
Seite 6 - Looking back now on that life of toil, I cannot but feel thankful that it formed such a material part of my early education; and, were it possible, I should like to begin life over again in the same lowly style, and to pass through the same hardy training.
Seite 45 - Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open the country; and we shall see who have been most successful in resolution — they or I.
Seite 20 - He went home, gave each of his superfluous wive:, new clothing, and all his own goods, which they had been accustomed to keep in their huts for him, and sent them to their parents with an intimation that he had no fault to find with them, but that in parting with them he wished to follow the will of God, On the day on which he and his children were baptized, great numbers came to see the ceremony.
Seite 1 - Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.
Seite 27 - I use my medicines, and you employ yours; we are both doctors, and doctors are not deceivers. You give a patient medicine. Sometimes God is pleased to heal him by means of your medicine; sometimes not — he dies. When he is cured, you take the credit of what God does. I do the same. Sometimes God grants us rain, sometimes not. When he does, we take the credit of the charm. When a patient dies, you don't give up trust in your medicine, neither do I when rain fails.