Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaRobert Carter, 1843 - 406 pages |
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... Tree struck by lightning - A baboon in requisition - The lions's heart - A grand discovery - Exhuma- tion of a body - The rain - maker begins to despair - He seeks coun- sel - A grave charge - The rain - maker condemned - He leaves the ...
... Tree struck by lightning - A baboon in requisition - The lions's heart - A grand discovery - Exhuma- tion of a body - The rain - maker begins to despair - He seeks coun- sel - A grave charge - The rain - maker condemned - He leaves the ...
Page xi
... tree - Singular expedient - The lions and the oven - An urgent appeal - Indications of former pros- perity - Traces of great industry - The ravages of war - An inte- resting recital - Heavy rains - Meet a hunting party - Savage pomp ...
... tree - Singular expedient - The lions and the oven - An urgent appeal - Indications of former pros- perity - Traces of great industry - The ravages of war - An inte- resting recital - Heavy rains - Meet a hunting party - Savage pomp ...
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... trees and shrubs , umbrageous at all seasons of the year . Thus , by the localities of the country they became separated into three great divisions , Hottentots , Corannas , and lesser and greater Namaquas . From time immemorial these ...
... trees and shrubs , umbrageous at all seasons of the year . Thus , by the localities of the country they became separated into three great divisions , Hottentots , Corannas , and lesser and greater Namaquas . From time immemorial these ...
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... trees instead of shrubs . The next problem is the variety of languages spoken by the Bushmen , even when nothing but a range of hills or a river intervenes between the tribes , and none of these dia- lects is understood by the ...
... trees instead of shrubs . The next problem is the variety of languages spoken by the Bushmen , even when nothing but a range of hills or a river intervenes between the tribes , and none of these dia- lects is understood by the ...
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... tree or shrub is visible . Nowhere appear any signs of life , nor a point on which the eye can dwell with pleasure . The compass of human sight is too small to take in the circumference of the whole - the soul must rest on the horrors ...
... tree or shrub is visible . Nowhere appear any signs of life , nor a point on which the eye can dwell with pleasure . The compass of human sight is too small to take in the circumference of the whole - the soul must rest on the horrors ...
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Africaner Africaner's animal appeared arrived attack attendants Barolongs Batlapis Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian clouds colony Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Divine grace Dutch language enemy eyes fear feel feet felt fire giraffe Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground Hamilton hand Hart River head hear heard heart heathen heavens hills horses Hottentots hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed king labours language leaving lion Lithako living London Missionary Society look Makaba Mantatees Matabele miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Moselekatse Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas natives neighbouring never night object Orange River oxen party passed plain present prey rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized sionary soon soul spear spot station thing tion traveller trees tribes village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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Page 200 - 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 32 - 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 363 - 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 390 - 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 179 - 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 33 - 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 310 - Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Page 80 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 104 - 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 19 - ... 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.