Prester John. With Illus. by Henry PitzHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 272 sidor |
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Africa Aitken Archie Arcoll's army asked began Berg Blaauwildebeeste fontein blesbok blood Blue Wildebeeste burn bush Captain Arcoll cave chance clear cliffs Colin collar Colles Crawfurd cried crossed dark Delagoa Bay diamonds door Dupree's Drift Durban Dyve eyes face fear feet felt fire followed gave glen gone gully hand head hear heard horse hour Inanda's Kraal indunas Inkulu Japp jewels Kaffir king Kirkcaple knew Labongo Laputa and Henriques Letaba light looked Lourenço Marques Machudi's miles mind morning mountain Mozambique Mwanga native never night Pietersdorp pistol plains plateau Portugoose Portuguese Prester John red screes remember river road rock Rooirand round schimmel seemed Shangaan shoulder side sight Sikitola's sjambok Snake spoke stone stood storekeeper stream suddenly talk tell thicket thing thought told took turned Umvelos voice wall Wardlaw Wolkberg words Zulu
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Sida 140 - And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it.
Sida 139 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Sida 140 - And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Sida 262 - That is the difference between white and black, the gift of responsibility, the power of being in a little way a king; and so long as we know this and practise it, we will rule not in Africa alone but wherever there are dark men who live only for the day and their own bellies.
Sida 102 - I said he was an educated man, but he is also a Kaffir. He can see the first stage of a thing, and maybe the second, but no more. That is the native mind. If it was not like that our chance would be the worse.
Sida 201 - I would also write that the man who shot him was killed on such and such a day at such and such a place by Colin's master.
Sida 262 - ... of his task. That is the difference between white and black, the gift of responsibility, the power of being in a little way a king...
Sida 251 - Behind me was the black night and the horrid secrets of darkness. Before me was my own country, for that loch and that bracken might have been on a Scotch moor. The fresh scent of the air and the whole morning mystery put song into my blood.
Sida 269 - John,' but the face is the face of Laputa. So the last of the kings of Africa does not lack his monument. Of this institution Mr Wardlaw is the head. He writes to me weekly, for I am one of the governors, as well as an old friend, and from a recent letter I take this passage: 'I often cast my mind back to the afternoon when you and I sat on the stoep of the schoolhouse, and talked of the Kaffirs and our future. I had about a dozen pupils then, and now I have nearly three thousand; and in place of...
Sida 142 - Ethiopian empire should arise, so majestic that the white man everywhere would dread its name, so righteous that all men under it would live in ease and peace.