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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... stand at 132 ° to 134 ° ; and if certain kinds of beetles were placed on the surface , they ran about a few seconds and expired . But this broiling heat only augmented the activity of the long - legged black ants : they never tire ...
... stand at 132 ° to 134 ° ; and if certain kinds of beetles were placed on the surface , they ran about a few seconds and expired . But this broiling heat only augmented the activity of the long - legged black ants : they never tire ...
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... stand their force , we must place ourselves in their position , and believe , as they do , that all medicines act by a mysterious charm . The term for cure may be translated “ charm ” ( alaha ) . Medical Doctor . Hail , friend ! How ...
... stand their force , we must place ourselves in their position , and believe , as they do , that all medicines act by a mysterious charm . The term for cure may be translated “ charm ” ( alaha ) . Medical Doctor . Hail , friend ! How ...
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... standing in the for- est ; and , if you want to be respected by the natives , a house of decent dimensions , costing an ... stand an hour or two in the sun , will by this process become excellent bread . We made our own butter , a jar ...
... standing in the for- est ; and , if you want to be respected by the natives , a house of decent dimensions , costing an ... stand an hour or two in the sun , will by this process become excellent bread . We made our own butter , a jar ...
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... stands in pools in some of them for several months in the year . The quantity of grass which grows on this remarkable region is astonishing , even to those who are familiar with India . It usually rises in tufts with bare spaces between ...
... stands in pools in some of them for several months in the year . The quantity of grass which grows on this remarkable region is astonishing , even to those who are familiar with India . It usually rises in tufts with bare spaces between ...
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... stand still , so does he . Seventeen of our draught oxen ran away , and in their flight went right into the hands of Sekomi , whom , from his being unfriendly to our success , we had no particular wish to see . Cattle - stealing , such ...
... stand still , so does he . Seventeen of our draught oxen ran away , and in their flight went right into the hands of Sekomi , whom , from his being unfriendly to our success , we had no particular wish to see . Cattle - stealing , such ...
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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...