Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1845 - 406 pages |
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... fire , with the Hottentots , a native , who was with them , was so terrified , that he seized his spear , and running off to the field , hid himself , supposing they in- tended to murder him . A few days after , a young Kafir wo- man ...
... fire , with the Hottentots , a native , who was with them , was so terrified , that he seized his spear , and running off to the field , hid himself , supposing they in- tended to murder him . A few days after , a young Kafir wo- man ...
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... fire , it acquires the consistency of wax , with which they cover the points of their arrows . Though the natives of South Africa have an aversion to fish , the Bushmen in the neighbourhood of rivers make very ingenious baskets , which ...
... fire , it acquires the consistency of wax , with which they cover the points of their arrows . Though the natives of South Africa have an aversion to fish , the Bushmen in the neighbourhood of rivers make very ingenious baskets , which ...
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... fire - arms ; to act not only on the defensive , but offensive also ; and Áfri- caner , who had been signally expert in re - capturing stolen cattle from the Bushmen pirates , now refused to comply with the command of the master , who ...
... fire - arms ; to act not only on the defensive , but offensive also ; and Áfri- caner , who had been signally expert in re - capturing stolen cattle from the Bushmen pirates , now refused to comply with the command of the master , who ...
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... fire - arms , and only retired when his musket was shot to pieces in his hand . On one occasion Berend's party , who were far superior in numbers , headed by Nicholas Berend , unexpectedly carried off every ox and cow belonging to ...
... fire - arms , and only retired when his musket was shot to pieces in his hand . On one occasion Berend's party , who were far superior in numbers , headed by Nicholas Berend , unexpectedly carried off every ox and cow belonging to ...
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... fire - brand , and set fire to the houses and huts , which were soon reduced to ashes ; and thus the light of Divine truth , which had just been enkindled in those gloomy regions , was extinguished for a season ; and a peaceful Zion ...
... fire - brand , and set fire to the houses and huts , which were soon reduced to ashes ; and thus the light of Divine truth , which had just been enkindled in those gloomy regions , was extinguished for a season ; and a peaceful Zion ...
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Page 169 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 359 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone...
Page 216 - However true it may have been, or still may be, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is a libel upon the curiosity of mankind to attribute this ignorance to indifference.
Page 388 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 23 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 304 - Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Page 22 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 70 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 96 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings ; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 9 - ... advanced, romping and playing together, the children of nature, through the live-long day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed.