Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern OceanHarper & Brothers, 1858 - 755 Seiten |
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... passed at my work ; I thus kept up a pretty constant study undisturbed by the roar of the machinery . To this part of my education I owe my present power of completely abstracting the mind from surrounding noises , so as to read and ...
... passed at my work ; I thus kept up a pretty constant study undisturbed by the roar of the machinery . To this part of my education I owe my present power of completely abstracting the mind from surrounding noises , so as to read and ...
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... passed by the same name as Lake Ngami ; * and I might then ( in 1842 ) have discovered that lake , had discovery alone been my object . Most part of this journey beyond Shokuane was performed on foot , in consequence of the draught oxen ...
... passed by the same name as Lake Ngami ; * and I might then ( in 1842 ) have discovered that lake , had discovery alone been my object . Most part of this journey beyond Shokuane was performed on foot , in consequence of the draught oxen ...
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... passed through the country ( in 1808 ) , and , descending the River Limpopo , were , with their party , all cut off by fever . The rain - makers there , fearing lest their wagons might drive away the rain , ordered them to be thrown ...
... passed through the country ( in 1808 ) , and , descending the River Limpopo , were , with their party , all cut off by fever . The rain - makers there , fearing lest their wagons might drive away the rain , ordered them to be thrown ...
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... passed away into darkness without knowing whither they were going . " I got out of the difficulty by explaining the geographical barriers in the North , and the gradual spread of knowledge from the South , to which we first had access ...
... passed away into darkness without knowing whither they were going . " I got out of the difficulty by explaining the geographical barriers in the North , and the gradual spread of knowledge from the South , to which we first had access ...
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... passed without one or two tribes in the East country being plundered of both cattle and children by the Boers . The plan pursued is the following : one or two friendly tribes are forced to accompany a party of mounted Boers , and these ...
... passed without one or two tribes in the East country being plundered of both cattle and children by the Boers . The plan pursued is the following : one or two friendly tribes are forced to accompany a party of mounted Boers , and these ...
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abundance Africa Angola animals antelopes appear Bakwains Balonda Bamangwato banks Barotse Bechuanas birds Boers buffalo Bushmen Caffres called canoes Cape Cassange cattle Chiboque chief Chobe Coanza color deep Desert district elephants English feeling feet fever fire forest give Golungo Alto grass Griquas guns head heard hippopotami hundred huts idea inches inhabitants insect Intemese Katema killed Kolobeng Kuruman labor Lake Ngami leave Lechulatebe Leeambye Leeba Linyanti lion living Loanda maize Makalaka Makololo Mambari Manenko manioc Masiko Massangano miles missionary named natives never night observed Oswell oxen party passed plains plant poison Portuguese possession present Quango rain remarkable river round Sebituane Sechele seen Sekeletu Sesheke Shinte skin slave-trade slaves soil soon spot springbuck stream thing town trade trees tribes tsetse tufa valley vegetation village wagon women yards young Zambesi Zouga
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Seite v - LIVINGSTONE'S SOUTH AFRICA. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. By DAvID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., DCL With Portrait, Maps, and Illustrations.
Seite 626 - All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations...
Seite 414 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Seite 370 - 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 558 - 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 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 560 - ... in oxygen gas, give off rays of sparks. The snow-white sheet seemed like myriads of small comets rushing on in one direction, each of which left behind its nucleus rays of foam. I never saw the appearance referred to noticed elsewhere. It seemed to be the effect of the mass of water leaping at once clear of the rock, and but slowly breaking up into spray.
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 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.