Three Visits to Madagascar During the Years 1853-1854-1856: Including a Journey to the Capital; with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People

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67 ページ - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
470 ページ - And when the sentences were all pronounced, and the officer was about to return to the chief authorities, the four sentenced to be burned requested him to ask that they might be killed first, and then burned. But they were burned alive. " When the officer was gone, they took those eighteen away to put them to death. The fourteen they tied by the hands and the feet to long poles, and carried on men's shoulders.
470 ページ - The fourteen they tied by the hands and the feet to long poles, and carried on men's shoulders. And these brethren prayed and spoke to the people as they were being carried along. And some who beheld them said that their faces were like the faces of angels.
470 ページ - ... poles, and carried on men's shoulders. And these brethren prayed and spoke to the people as they were being carried along And some who beheld them said that their faces were like the faces of angels. And when they came to the top of...
19 ページ - Radama he was assassinated, and the present ruler was raised to the supreme authority. For a time the schools and the religious teaching of the missionaries were allowed, but it soon became evident that the policy of the government was changed. The influence of the idol-keepers, and of the supporters of divination and other superstitions of the country, was soon restored to its former supremacy.
470 ページ - When I shall die, and leave my friends, When they shall weep for me, When departed has my life, Then I shall be happy." " When that hymn was finished, they sang the 154th : — 1 When I shall behold Him rejoicing in the heavens,
467 ページ - ... testimony which they bore, when brought before judges and rulers, for His name's sake. The following exact and verbatim statements refer to the severe persecution in the year 1849, and will make their own appeal to every heart. They are offered without apprehension, as those to whom they refer have passed into a world where " the fury of the oppressor " and the cruelty of the persecutor can never enter. ' " On the 14th of March, 1849, the officer before whom the Christians were examined said,...
60 ページ - ... colour and size. Nor is it the least curious to notice that these slender and fragile structures, apparently not more substantial than the gossamer and flexible as a feather, still possess a tenacity and wiriness which allow the delicate leaf to be raised by the hand to the surface of the water without injury.
52 ページ - I shall never forget our first interview with the native Christian with whom we had most frequent intercourse. We were seated at breakfast with one of the foreign residents, when, according to appointment, he arrived. After looking earnestly at each of us for a few moments, and almost mechanically giving us his hand, there came over his whole countenance such an expression of emotion as I had never before witnessed in any human being. It was not ecstasy, it was not terror, and yet a seeming blending...
278 ページ - ... gratification, however expensive to them, secured, and consequently live as if but for the day, trusting to the future to provide for itself. There were some striking exceptions to these characteristics. But still, with regard to the Hottentots especially, the existence of this downward tendency cannot be regarded with indifference ; for, without a change, they must either become mere hewers of wood and drawers of water to others, or, as a race, gradually melt away. It is this weakness of character...

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