Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1845 - 406 pages |
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... spear or knife . Indeed , all the valuable skins of the larger animals , which they sometimes procure by hunting and pitfalls , as well as the better portions of the meat , they have to yield to their nomi- nal masters , except when ...
... spear or knife . Indeed , all the valuable skins of the larger animals , which they sometimes procure by hunting and pitfalls , as well as the better portions of the meat , they have to yield to their nomi- nal masters , except when ...
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... 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 going to visit the party , seeing in the distance their tent shaken by the wind , and supposing it ...
... 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 going to visit the party , seeing in the distance their tent shaken by the wind , and supposing it ...
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... spear , and suspends his bow and quiver on his shoulder ; while the woman frequently , in addition to the burden of a helpless infant , carries a mat , an earthen pot , a number of ostrich egg - shells , and a few ragged skins , bun ...
... spear , and suspends his bow and quiver on his shoulder ; while the woman frequently , in addition to the burden of a helpless infant , carries a mat , an earthen pot , a number of ostrich egg - shells , and a few ragged skins , bun ...
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... spears , if time permit , into every animal in the troop . I have known sixty head level- led in this way . This habit , which obtains universally among that unfortunate people , exasperates their enemies to the last degree , and ...
... spears , if time permit , into every animal in the troop . I have known sixty head level- led in this way . This habit , which obtains universally among that unfortunate people , exasperates their enemies to the last degree , and ...
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... spears into pruning- hooks . " As soon as Africaner had discovered the origin of the plot , which had well nigh overthrown his power , he visited the boundaries of the colony . A farmer named Engelbrecht , and a Bastard Hottentot , fell ...
... spears into pruning- hooks . " As soon as Africaner had discovered the origin of the plot , which had well nigh overthrown his power , he visited the boundaries of the colony . A farmer named Engelbrecht , and a Bastard Hottentot , fell ...
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Africaner animal appeared arrived attack attendants Barolongs Basutos Batlapis Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend brought Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian clouds colony commenced Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Dutch language enemy eyes father fear feel fire fled frequently Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground Hamilton hand hear heard heart heathen heavens hills horses Hottentots human hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed king Kuruman labours language leaving lion Lithako live London Missionary Society look Makaba Mantatees Matabele miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Moselekatse Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas nation natives neighbouring never night object obtain Orange River oxen party Philippolis plain present rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized sent sionary soon soul spear spot station thing tion traveller tribes Vanderkemp village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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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.