Missionary Travels and Researches in South AfricaJ. Murray, 1899 - 447 Seiten |
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abundance Africa Angola animals antelopes appearance Bakwains Balonda Bamangwato banks Barotse Barotse valley Batoka beads Bechuanas birds Boers buffaloes Bushmen Caffres called canoes Cassange cattle Cazembe CHAP Chiboque chief Chobe clothing colour crossed district elephants feet fever forest friends Golungo Alto grass Griquas guns herds hundred huts hyæna inches inhabitants insect ivory Katema killed Kolobeng Kuruman labour Lake Ngami leave Leeba Lekone Linyanti lion live Loanda maize Makalaka Makololo Mambari Manenko manioc Matebele Matiamvo miles missionary morning named natives never night oxen party passed path plant Portuguese present Pungo Andongo Quango quantity rain reached remarked river round Sebituane Sechele seen Sekeletu sent Sesheke Shinte side skin slaves soil soon spot stream Tete town traders trees tribes tsetse tusks vegetable village visited waggon women yards young Zambesi Zouga
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Seite 256 - marching along with our father, believing that what the ancients had always told us was true, that the world has no end; but all at once the world said to us, 'I am finished; there is no more of me !'
Seite 180 - they bring a quantity of ashes or pipeclay in a piece of skin, and rub it on the chest and upper front part of each arm; others drum their ribs with their elbows; while others touch the ground with one cheek after the other, and clap their hands. When Sambanza had finished his oration
Seite xix - My reading in the factory was carried on by placing the book on a portion of the spinning jenny, so that I could catch sentence after sentence as I 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 power of
Seite xvi - of our family, and I never could discover that there was a dishonest man among our forefathers. If therefore any of you should take to dishonest ways, it will not be because it runs in our blood. I leave this precept with you: Be honest.
Seite 46 - In the cool of the mornings and evenings it is less agile. Its peculiar buzz when once heard can never be forgotten by the traveller whose means of locomotion are domestic animals; for its bite is death to the ox, horse, and dog. In this journey, though we
Seite 47 - somewhat deeply into the true skin. It then draws the prong out a little way, and it assumes a crimson colour as the mandibles come into brisk operation. The previously shrunken belly swells out, and, if left undisturbed, the fly quietly departs when it is full. A slight itching irritation follows the bite.
Seite 5 - He is shot, he is shot! " Others cried, " He has been shot by another man too ; let us go to him! " I saw the lion's tail erected in anger, and, turning to the people, said,
Seite 334 - 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 falls are simply caused by a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the
Seite 53 - was never so much grieved by the loss of a black man before ; and it was impossible not to follow him in thought into the other world, and to realise somewhat of the feelings of those who pray for the dead. The dark question of what is to become of such as he, must, however, bo left where
Seite 8 - You startle me," he replied; " these words make all my bones to shake ; I have no more strength in me : but my forefathers were living at the same time yours were, and how is it that they did not send them word about these terrible things sooner ? They all passed away into darkness without knowing whither they were going.