Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa...Harper, 1868 - 755 ページ |
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... never carried a book through the press can form no idea of the amount of toil it involves . The process has increased my respect for authors and authoresses a thousand - fold . I can not refrain from referring , with sentiments of ...
... never carried a book through the press can form no idea of the amount of toil it involves . The process has increased my respect for authors and authoresses a thousand - fold . I can not refrain from referring , with sentiments of ...
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... Never could desire to eat any thing better . " - Young Herbage and Animals.— Valley of the Loembwe . - The white Man a Hobgoblin . - Specimen of Quarrel- ing . Eager Desire for Calico . - Want of Clothing at Kawawa's . - Funeral Ob ...
... Never could desire to eat any thing better . " - Young Herbage and Animals.— Valley of the Loembwe . - The white Man a Hobgoblin . - Specimen of Quarrel- ing . Eager Desire for Calico . - Want of Clothing at Kawawa's . - Funeral Ob ...
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... never - ending stock of stories , many of which were wonder- fully like those I have since heard while sitting by the African evening fires . Our grandmother , too , used to sing Gaelic songs , some of which , as she believed , had been ...
... never - ending stock of stories , many of which were wonder- fully like those I have since heard while sitting by the African evening fires . Our grandmother , too , used to sing Gaelic songs , some of which , as she believed , had been ...
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... who has been incessant and never weary in good works for about forty years . I was delighted to find him still alive ; men like these are an honor to their country and profession . 8 NO CLAIM TO LITERARY MERIT . to China .
... who has been incessant and never weary in good works for about forty years . I was delighted to find him still alive ; men like these are an honor to their country and profession . 8 NO CLAIM TO LITERARY MERIT . to China .
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... never flows , and where a single herd could not find fluid for its support . When Sechele was still a boy , his father , also called Mochoasele , was murdered by his own people for taking to himself the wives of his rich under - chiefs ...
... never flows , and where a single herd could not find fluid for its support . When Sechele was still a boy , his father , also called Mochoasele , was murdered by his own people for taking to himself the wives of his rich under - chiefs ...
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abundance Africa Angola animals antelopes appear attack Bakwains Balonda Bamangwato banks Barotse Bayeiye Bechuanas birds Boers buffalo Bushmen Caffres called canoes Cape cattle chief Chobe colony color deep Desert elephants English feeling feet fever fire goats Golungo Alto grass Griquas guns head heard herds hippopotami hundred hunting huts idea inches insect ivory Kalahari Kalahari Desert killed Kolobeng Kuruman labor Lake Ngami leave Lechulatebe Leeambye Leeba Linyanti lion living Loanda Makalaka Makololo Mambari Masiko miles missionary Mpepe Naliele named natives never night observed ostrich Oswell oxen party passed plains plant poison Portuguese possession present rain remarkable river round Sebituane Sechele sechu seems seen Sekeletu Sesheke Shinte skin soon spot springbuck stream thing town trade trees tribes tsetse tufa valley vegetation village wagon whole women yards young Zambesi Zouga
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412 ページ - ... 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,
13 ページ - Mebalwe, who was trying to shoot him at a distance of ten or fifteen yards. His gun, a flint one, missed fire in both barrels ; the lion immediately left me, and, attacking Mebalwe, bit his thigh. Another man, whose life I had saved before, after he had been tossed by a buffalo, attempted to spear the lion while he was biting Mebalwe. He left Mebalwe and caught this man by the shoulder, but at that moment the bullets he had received took effect, and he fell down dead.
556 ページ - The falls are bounded on thrce sides by ridges 300 or 400 feet in height, which are covered with forest, with the red soil appearing among the trees. When about half a mile from the falls, I left the canoe by which we had come down thus far, and embarked in a lighter one, with men well acquainted with the rapids, who, by passing down the centre of the stream in the eddies and still places caused by many jutting rocks, brought me to an island situated in the middle of the river, and on the edge of...
557 ページ - But though we had reached the island, and were within a few yards of the spot a view from which would solve the whole problem, I believe that no one could perceive where the vast body of water went; it seemed to lose itself in the earth, the opposite lip of the fissure into which it disappeared being only 80 feet distant.
624 ページ - All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations...
10 ページ - I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it. The men then called out,
557 ページ - I did not comprehend it until, crceping with awe to the 'verge, I peered down into a large 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.
17 ページ - when a chief was fond of hunting, all his people got dogs, and became fond of hunting too. If he was fond of dancing or music, all showed a liking to these amusements too. If the chief loved beer, they all rejoiced in strong drink. But in this case it is different. I love the Word of God, and not one of my brethren will join me.
556 ページ - 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 three sides by ridges 300 or 400 feet in height, which are covered with forest, with the red soil appearing among the trees. When about half a mile from the falls, I left the canoe by which we had come down thus far, and embarked in a lighter one, with men well acquainted with the rapids, who, by...