Narrative of a Residence in South AfricaMoxon, 1835 - 356 sidor |
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... banks of the Zwartkops river , covered with jungle . The lofty and picturesque mountains , however , already mentioned , which bound the view to the northward , somewhat relieved the otherwise monotonous landscape ; and , as I proceeded ...
... banks of the Zwartkops river , covered with jungle . The lofty and picturesque mountains , however , already mentioned , which bound the view to the northward , somewhat relieved the otherwise monotonous landscape ; and , as I proceeded ...
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... bank amidst a clump of mimosa trees . In the afternoon , on resuming our journey , I induced the drivers , by a little ... banks of greater elevation and abruptness are covered with continuous thickets of arboreous and succulent plants ...
... bank amidst a clump of mimosa trees . In the afternoon , on resuming our journey , I induced the drivers , by a little ... banks of greater elevation and abruptness are covered with continuous thickets of arboreous and succulent plants ...
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... banks , rendered the crossing of them with our heavy - loaded vehicles a task some- times of no ordinary difficulty . We passed also over an exten- sive tract of mountainous country near the Zureberg , where the roads appeared to us ...
... banks , rendered the crossing of them with our heavy - loaded vehicles a task some- times of no ordinary difficulty . We passed also over an exten- sive tract of mountainous country near the Zureberg , where the roads appeared to us ...
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... banks of the Teviot and the Fields Lothian . Hart , a man of iron look and rigid nerve , was taken by surprise , and deeply affected . The accents of his native tongue , uttered by the kindly voice of woman , carried him back forty ...
... banks of the Teviot and the Fields Lothian . Hart , a man of iron look and rigid nerve , was taken by surprise , and deeply affected . The accents of his native tongue , uttered by the kindly voice of woman , carried him back forty ...
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... banks of which we had arrived , is one of the smaller branches of the Great Fish River , flowing from the north - east , and watering a rugged mountain glen of about thirty miles in extent . The upper part - of this glen could scarcely ...
... banks of which we had arrived , is one of the smaller branches of the Great Fish River , flowing from the north - east , and watering a rugged mountain glen of about thirty miles in extent . The upper part - of this glen could scarcely ...
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Narrative of a Residence in South Africa Thomas Pringle,Josiah Conder Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1835 |
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afterwards Albany Algoa Bay Amakosa animal appeared arrived assagais Barrow British Bushmen Cafferland Cape colony Cape Corps Cape Town Captain Stockenstrom cattle character clans Colonel Colonial Government colonists coloured commando Commissioners desert district Dutch Dutch-African Earl Bathurst elephants emigrants England English Fairbairn favourable feet female field-cornet fire Fish River flocks forest frontier boors functionaries Gaika Genadendal glen Glen-Lynden Governor Graaff-Reinet Graham's Town ground herds horses Hottentot hyæna inhabitants Islambi journey jungle Karroo Kat River kraal labours land landdrost length lion Lord Charles Somerset Makomo ment miles mimosa missionary mountains Mulatto natives neighbours occasion officer oppression party period persons Philip Pringle quaggas race regard remarkable residence respectable rocks Royal African Corps sent settlement settlers slaughter snake Sneeuwberg South Africa species spot Stuurman Tarka territory thicket tion trees tribes troops valley wagons whole wild Winterberg Zureberg Zureveld
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Sida 67 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night : Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their meat from God.
Sida 35 - Our vows, our prayers we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race. 3 Through each perplexing path of life Our wandering footsteps guide : Give us each day our daily bread. And raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy covering wings around, Till all our wanderings cease, And, at our Father's loved abode, Our souls arrive in peace.
Sida 34 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Sida 66 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle: and herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Sida 84 - ... he was meditating mischief. The Hottentots, by taking a circuit between him and the mountain, crossed the stream, and took a position on the top of a precipice overlooking the spot where he stood. Another party of us occupied a position on the other side of the glen; and placing the poor fellow thus between two fires, which confused his attention and prevented his retreat, we kept battering away at him till he fell, unable again to grapple with us, pierced with many wounds.
Sida 197 - I know) a single death — death — except one, namely, that of Mr. Peter Rennie, who was unfortunately killed by the bursting of a gun, in 1825. My father, at the patriarchal age of eighty years, enjoys the mild sunset of life in the midst of his children and grand-children : the latter, of whom there is a large and rapidly increasing number, having been, with a few exceptions, all born in South Africa. The party have more than doubled their original numbers, by births alone, during the last twelve...
Sida 84 - The dogs were barking round, but afraid to approach him, — for he was now beginning to growl fiercely, and to brandish his tail in a manner that showed he was meditating mischief. The Hottentots, by...
Sida 66 - He watereth the hills from his chambers : the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
Sida 83 - Bastaards to stand firm and level fair should they miss, the Scottish champions let fly together, and struck— not the lion, (as it afterwards proved,) but a great block of red stone— beyond which he was actually lying. Whether any of the shot grazed him is uncertain, but, with no other warning than a furious growl, forth he bolted from the bush. The...
Sida 35 - But though the result of our scheme is in the womb of futurity, and although it seems probable that greater perils and privations await us than we had once calculated upon, there yet appears no reason to repent of the course we have taken, or to augur unfavourably of the ultimate issue. Thus far Providence has prospered and protected us. We left not our native land from wanton restlessness or mere love of change, or without very sufficient and reasonable motives. Let us, therefore, go on calmly and...