Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1843 - 406 pages |
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Robert Moffat. CONTENTS . vii CHAPTER X. Return homeward - The lion and giraffe - A night scene - Terror of oxen at a lion - Inhuman custom - Search for water - A mother left to perish - Human depravity - Want of natural affection - Sa ...
Robert Moffat. CONTENTS . vii CHAPTER X. Return homeward - The lion and giraffe - A night scene - Terror of oxen at a lion - Inhuman custom - Search for water - A mother left to perish - Human depravity - Want of natural affection - Sa ...
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... giraffe browsing at ease on the tender shoots of the tree , and , to his horror , a lion , creeping like a cat , only a dozen yards from him , preparing to pounce on his prey . The lion eyed the giraffe for a few moments , his body gave ...
... giraffe browsing at ease on the tender shoots of the tree , and , to his horror , a lion , creeping like a cat , only a dozen yards from him , preparing to pounce on his prey . The lion eyed the giraffe for a few moments , his body gave ...
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... giraffe , and , fixing his sharp claws into each shoulder , gnaw away till he reaches the vertebræ of the neck , when both fall ; and ofttimes the lion is lamed for his trouble . If the giraffe happens to be very strong , he succeeds in ...
... giraffe , and , fixing his sharp claws into each shoulder , gnaw away till he reaches the vertebræ of the neck , when both fall ; and ofttimes the lion is lamed for his trouble . If the giraffe happens to be very strong , he succeeds in ...
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... giraffe is seldom much injured . A limb may be torn off , but of numerous trees of that species which I have seen struck by lightning , the trunk appears to resist its power , as the fluid produces only a stripe or groove along the bark ...
... giraffe is seldom much injured . A limb may be torn off , but of numerous trees of that species which I have seen struck by lightning , the trunk appears to resist its power , as the fluid produces only a stripe or groove along the bark ...
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... giraffe , when now scarcely one is to be seen raising its stately head above the shrubs ; while the sloping sides of hills , and the ancient beds of rivers , plainly evinced that they were de- nuded of the herbage which once clothed ...
... giraffe , when now scarcely one is to be seen raising its stately head above the shrubs ; while the sloping sides of hills , and the ancient beds of rivers , plainly evinced that they were de- nuded of the herbage which once clothed ...
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Africaner Africaner's animal appeared arrived attack Barolongs Batlapis Batlaros Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend brought bushes Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian clouds colony Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Dutch language enemy eyes father fear feel fire fled frequently giraffe Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground Hamilton hand hear heard heart heathen heavens hills horses Hottentots hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed Kuruman River labours language leaving lion Lithako living London Missionary Society look Mahura Makaba Mantatees Matabele miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas natives neighbouring never night object obtain Orange River oxen party passed Philippolis plain present prey rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized sent sionary soon soul spear spot station thing tion traveller tribes village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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Page 202 - 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 29 - 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 28 - 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 371 - 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 181 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 318 - Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Page 93 - A region of drought, where no river glides, Nor rippling brook with osiered sides ; Where sedgy pool, nor bubbling fount, Nor tree, nor cloud, nor misty mount, Appears to refresh the aching eye : But the barren earth and the burning sky, And the blank horizon, round and round, Spread — void of living sight or sound.
Page 76 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 120 - No longer hosts encountering hosts, Shall crowds of slain deplore; They hang the trumpet in the hall, And study war no more.
Page 100 - 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...